 They represented tolerable figures of sharks, porpoises, turtles, lizards (of which I saw several small ones among the rocks), trepang, starfish, clubs, canoes, water-gourds, and some quadrupeds, which were probably intended to represent kangaroos and...  Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia ... - Page 26by Philip Parker King - 1827Full view - About this book
 | James Silk Buckingham - Great Britain - 1826 - 624 pages
...worked up into a paste. They represented tolerable figures of sharks, porpoises, turtles, lizards, trepang, star-fish, clubs, canoes, water-gourds, and...with the same pigment in dotted transverse belts." " Captain Flinders," continues Mr. Cunningham, " had discovered figures on Chasm Island, in the gulf... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1826 - 624 pages
...worked up into apaste.' They represented tolerable figures of sharks, porpoises, turtles, lizards, trepang, star-fish, clubs, canoes, water-gourds, and...with the same pigment in dotted transverse belts." " Captain Flinders," continues Mr. Cunningham, " had discovered figures on Chasm Island, in the gulf... | |
 | George Grey - Aboriginal Australians - 1841 - 472 pages
...(of which I saw several small ones among the rocks,) trepang, star-fish, clubs, canoes, water gourds, and some quadrupeds, which were probably intended...dotted transverse belts. Tracing a gallery round to * North-east coast of Australia. windward, it brought me to a commodious cave, or recess, overhung... | |
 | William Howitt - Australia - 1865 - 450 pages
...porpoises, turtles, lizards, trepang, star-fish, clubs, canoes, water gourds, and some quadrupeds, probaby intended to represent kangaroos and dogs. The figures,...with the same pigment in dotted transverse belts." The roof and sides of a large cave, which contained fire places of the natives, were also similarly... | |
 | Julian Edmund Tenison-Woods - Australia - 1865 - 482 pages
...turtles, lizards, trepang, star-fishes, canoes, water-gourds, and some quadrupeds, probably intended for kangaroos and dogs. The figures, besides being outlined...with the same pigment in dotted transverse belts. Besides these, a gallery led round to a cave large enough for twenty natives, whose recent fireplaces... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Anthropology - 1865 - 560 pages
...north-eastern coast, Mr. Cunningham observed certain "tolerable figures of sharks, porpoises, turtles, lizards, trepang, starfish, clubs, canoes, watergourds, and...probably intended to represent kangaroos and dogs."* It is, however, doubtful whether these are the work of the present natives. The Alfouras do not claim... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Antiquities - 1869 - 670 pages
...north-eastern coast, Mr. Cunningham observed certain "tolerable figures of sharks, porpoises, turtles, lizards, trepang, starfish, clubs, canoes, water-gourds, and...probably intended to represent kangaroos and dogs." The natives round Sydney also frequently drew upon the rocks "various figures of fish, clubs, swords, animals,... | |
 | Hodder Michael Westropp - Antiquities, Prehistoric - 1872 - 254 pages
...coast, Mr. Cunningham observed certain " tolerable figures of sharks, porpoises, turtles, lizards, trepang, starfish, clubs, canoes, water-gourds, and...probably intended to represent kangaroos and dogs." The natives round + Sydney also frequently drew upon the rocks " various figures of fish, clubs, swords,... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. South Australian Branch - Australia - 1886 - 1090 pages
...several small ones among the rocks), trepang, starfish, clubs, canoes water-gourds, and some quadiupeds, which were probably intended to represent kangaroos...round to windward, it brought me to a commodious cave, overhung by a portion of the ABORIGINES OF AUSTRALIA. 15 " schistus, sufficiently large to shelter... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Archaeology - 1892 - 688 pages
...tolerable figures of sharks, porpoises, turtles, lizards, trepang, starfish, clubs, canoes, water -gourds, and some quadrupeds which were probably intended to represent kangaroos and dogs." The natives round Sydney also frequently drew upon the rocks " various figures of fish, clubs, swords,... | |
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