enior wife
were established. The old mother N=ow-k~it-y~oo assisted the
young woman in pulling off our wet clothes and boots, which latter
being of native manufacture, she new-soled and mended without any
request on our side, considering us as a part of the family. Dunn
slept in the little tent to watch our goods, and I had a small
portion of Ooyarra's screened off for me by a seal's skin. My host
and his wives having retired to another tent, and my visitors taking
compassion on me, I went comfortably to sleep; but at midnight was
awakened by a feeling of great warmth, and, to my surprise, found
myself covered by a large deerskin, under which lay my friend, his
two wives, and their favourite puppy, all fast asleep and stark
naked. Supposing this was all according to rule, I left them to
repose in peace, and resigned myself to sleep.

"On rising, Dunn and I washed with soap in a pond, which caused
great speculations among the by-standers, on some of whom we
afterward performed miracles in the cleansing way. A large
assemblage being collected to hear me talk of Ney-uning-Eitua, or
Winter Island, and to see us eat, the women volunteered to cook for
us; and, as we preferred a fire in the open air to their lamps, the
good-natured creatures sat an hour in the rain to stew some venison
which we had saved from our shares of the deer. The fires in summer,
when in the open air, are generally made of bones previously well
rubbed with blubber, and the female who attends the cooking chews a
large piece, from which, as she extracts the oil, she spirts it on
the flame.

"After noon, as I lay half asleep, a man came, and, taking me by the
hand, desired Dunn to follow. He led to a tent, which, from the
stillness within, I conjectured was untenanted. Several men stood
near the door, and, on entering, I found eighteen women assembled
and seated in regular order, with the seniors in front. In the
centre, near the tent-pole, stood two men, who, when I was seated on
a large stone, walked slowly round, and one began dancing in the
usual manner, to the favourite tune of 'Amna aya.' The second
person, as I soon found, was the dancer's assistant; and, when the
principal had pretty well exhausted himself, he walked gravely up
to him, and, taking his head between his hands, performed a ceremony
calle