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Updated: May 5, 2025
The exploring party did not attain their object, and to this day many of the settlers believe the kwon-nat to be a kind of corn. Generally speaking the natives live well; in some districts there may at particular seasons of the year be a deficiency of food, but if such is the case these tracts are at those times deserted.
In order more fully to show how little the habits of this people have been understood I may state with regard to this very gum, called by the natives kwon-nat, that about the time the above account was published by Captain Sturt an expedition was sent out from King George's Sound in Western Australia in order to discover what was the nature of the article of food so loudly praised by them, and which they stated was to be found in certain districts in great profusion; the belief at that time being, from the accounts given of it, that it could be only a new and valuable species of grain.
The natives must be admitted to bestow a sort of cultivation upon this root, as they frequently burn the leaves of the plant in the dry seasons in order to improve it. The different kinds of fungus are very good. In certain seasons of the year they are abundant and the natives eat them greedily. Kwon-nat is the kind of gum which most abounds and is considered the nicest article of food.
As but few places afford a sufficient supply of food to support a large assemblage of persons these Kwon-nat grounds are generally the spots at which their annual barter meetings are held, and during these fun, frolic, and quarrelling of every description prevail. No article of food used by the natives is more deserving of notice than the by-yu.
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