The frame was of wood, with slab walls, and was roofed with sheets of bark from a tree called the “stringy-bark tree.”

The narrow-leaved Ironbark had disappeared with the primitive rocks; the moment sandstone commenced, stringy-bark took its place.

The timber is stringy-bark, some splendid trees; amongst them gums and a number of pines, also very fine.

Their koolimans were very large, almost like small boats, and were made of the inner layer of the bark of the stringy-bark tree.