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The Yandruwandha roasted the nardoo spores, ground the flour with water, and exposed the cakes to ash, each step making the thiaminase less toxic.

The blacks showed the hapless men how to gather the little black seeds of a grass called the nardoo, on which they mostly lived themselves.

The great thing with the blacks was nardoo.

They at once set about collecting nardoo; two of them were employed in gathering it, while one stayed in camp to clean and crush it.

They laid him softly within the hut, and placed at his head enough of nardoo to last him for eight days.