The country in which the operations took place was a fine open grassy plain, thinly skirted with trees and with mountains almost encircling it in the distance.
I ought here to describe my personal appearance on this important day, when, for the first time, I posed as a great chief, and led my people into battle, filled with the same enthusiasm that animated them.

My hair was built up on strips of whalebone to a height of nearly two feet from my head, and was decorated with black and white cockatoo feathers.

My face, which had now become very dark from exposure to the sun, was decorated in four colours--yellow, white, black, and red.
There were two black-and-white arched stripes across the forehead, and a yellow curving line across each cheek under the eye.

I also wore a fairly long beard, moustache, and side-whiskers.

There were four different-coloured stripes on each arm, whilst on the body were four vari- coloured stripes, two on each side; and a long, yellow, curving stripe extended across the stomach, belt-wise.