Different articles of food eaten by the natives of Western Australia: 

Six sorts of kangaroo. 
Twenty-nine sorts of fish. 
One kind of whale. 
Two species of seal. 
Wild dogs. 
Three kinds of turtle. 
Emus, wild turkeys, and birds of every kind. 
Two species of opossum. 
Eleven kinds of frogs. 
Four kinds of freshwater shellfish. 
All saltwater shellfish, except oysters. 
Four kinds of grubs. 
Eggs of every species of bird or lizard. 
Five animals, something smaller in size than rabbits. 
Eight sorts of snakes. 
Seven sorts of iguana. 
Nine species of mice and small rats. 
Twenty-nine sorts of roots. 
Seven kinds of fungus. 
Four sorts of gum. 
Two sorts of manna. 
Two species of by-yu, or the nut of the Zamia palm. 
Two species of mesembryanthemum. 
Two kinds of nut. 
Four sorts of fruit. 
The flower of several species of Banksia. 
One kind of earth, which they pound and mix with the root of the mene. 
The seeds of several species of leguminous plants.

It will be necessary however before commencing this sketch to give an outline of the weapons and implements with which the different animals are caught and killed, and the vegetable productions procured.

EQUIPMENT FOR A HUNT.  IMPLEMENTS FOR DESTROYING ANIMALS.

The natives nearly always carry the whole of their worldly property about with them, and the Australian hunter is thus equipped:  round his middle is wound, in many folds, a cord spun from the fur of the opossum, which forms a warm, soft and elastic belt of an inch in thickness, in which are stuck his hatchet, his kiley or boomerang, and a short heavy stick to throw at the smaller animals.  His hatchet is so ingeniously placed that the head of it rests exactly on the centre of his back, whilst its thin short handle descends along the backbone.  In his hand he carries his throwing-stick and several spears, headed in two or three different manners so that they are equally adapted to war or the chase.  A warm kangaroo skin cloak completes his equipment in the southern portions of the continent; but I have never seen a native with a cloak anywhere to the north of 29 degrees south latitude.

DESCRIPTION AND USE OF THE WEAPONS.

These weapons, although apparently so simple, are admirably adapted for the purposes they are intended to serve.  The spear when projected from the throwing-stick forms as effectual a weapon as the bow and arrow, whilst at the same time it is much less liable to be injured, and it possesses over the bow and arrow the advantage of being useful to poke out kangaroo-rats and opossums from hollow trees, to knock off gum from high branches, to pull down the cones from the Banksia trees, and for many other purposes.

The hatchet is used to cut up the larger kinds of game and to make holes in the trees the owner is about to climb.  The kiley is thrown into flights of wild-fowl and cockatoos, and with the dow-uk, a short heavy stick, they knock over the smaller kinds of game much in the same manner that poachers do hares and rabbits in England.