They had very bright eyes, broad, flat noses, low, narrow foreheads, and heavy chins.
But there are comely exceptions.

And yet at big _corroborees_ on the occasion of a marriage, the men always chanted praises to the virtue and beauty of the bride! The girl who possessed an exceptionally large and flat nose was considered a great beauty.

Talking about noses, it was to me a remarkable fact, that the blacks consider a warrior with a big nose and large distended nostrils a man possessed of great staying power.

For one thing, they consider his breathing apparatus exceptionally perfect.
As a general rule (there are exceptions in the case of a very "beautiful" woman), when a woman dies she is not even buried; she simply lies where she has fallen dead, and the camp moves on to another place and never returns to the unholy spot.

And it may be mentioned here that the blacks never allude to a dead person by name, as they have a great horror of departed spirits.