-- Peragale lagotis, Reid. Threlkeld, `Australian Grammar, p. 69: There exudes from the Brigalow a white gum, in outwardappearance like gum-arabic, and even clearer, but as a`sticker' valueless, and as a `chew-gum' disappointing. The inhabitants call these miseries `Brickfielders,' butwhy they do so I am unable to divine; probably because they arein their utmost vigour on a certain hill here, where bricks aremade.
The uppers were nets made of humanhair. 203: They had a much larger quantity of amoca [sic] orblack stains upon their bodies and faces. 75: Kokowai is a kind of pigment, burnt, dried, and mixed withshark-liver oil. albicollis, Buller.
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