Letter received by Banks from Charles Francis Greville, April 1802 (Series 23.25) - No. 0007

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touched by the Tongue occasions a Burning pain on the palate of the mouth difficult to describe but experience made me detest even the sight of it. I believe the only mode of making it palatable to them is roasting them.

The Natives are not more advanced in arts than those of Sidney, unless it is in making nets Lines to fish, & sacks 3 feet circumference, & one deep netted, of a new species of Coregeau, which they prepare by soaking the Bark & afterwards beating it with a wooden mallet. They only employ the right hand to spin their thread twist their Line, pressing the thread very tight against their thighs.

I found in their boat Kenou, Little hand hatchets English manufacture which is Extraordinary as Europeans have frequented this place only 5 or 6 in Number but it is not improbable they obtain them on their excursions having communication with the Natives of Hawkesbury, passing the mountains near Mount York - or with the Natives of Brooken Bay [Broken Bay].

being one Sunday with 3 soldiers hunting for kangaroos, we thought we perceived an animal