Dr.Duncan continues: When one dies or is killed they bury the body in the earth, but at the end of five days dig it up again and wrap up the bones, etc., in bark of trees, and carry them along with them.

When the women fight, which is very often, they use a short kind of club.

The natives paint their bodies over with red clay to prevent the mosquitoes from biting them.

When they paint their bodies white it is a sign of war with some other tribe.
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A very remarkable instance of coincidence in this custom with regard to the dead will be found in a subjoined extract from a letter sent to me by an officer of the Beagle, together with a skeleton which he had found at Cygnet Bay.

The skeleton has been presented to the Royal College of Surgeons: The skeleton was found enveloped in three pieces of papyrus bark, on a small sandy point in Cygnet Bay.