THEY were of wandering habits, yet they seldom advanced beyond the boundaries which marked their own respective possessions–their place of encampment depended on the food they had obtained in hunting or fishing–as it was their custom to make their sojourn where they procured their prey and took their last meal” (Melville, p. 346). Furneaux (Cook's Sec. Voy. Bk. I. ch. vii.) thought they were nomadic: “They lie on the ground, on dried grass; and I believe they have no settled habitation (as their houses seemed built only for a few days), but wander about in small parties from place to place, in search of food, and are actuated by no other motive. We never found more than three or four huts in a place, capable of containing three or four persons each only.” The following extracts from Rossel (I. ch. iii. p. 51; ch. iv. pp. 69 and 82) confirm Furneaux's supposition: “I found near the stream the remains of some encampments of the natives of the country. The oyster-shells and limpets, pieces of burnt wood, and the down-trodden grass near, assured me that they had stayed there.… At a short distance from the shore, three huts, which were abandoned, made us think that the natives of the country came to live on this little island during certain seasons of the year.