Darug; and to the south, around Kundul were the Gwiyagal, a northern clan of the Tharawal. Their clan identification, belonging to numerous groups of about 50 members, overrode more general Eora loyalties, according to Governor Phillip, a point first made by David Collins and underlined decades later by a visiting Russian naval officer, Aleksey Rossiysky in 1814, who wrote: each man considers his own community to be the best. When he chances to meet a fellow-countryman from another community, and if someone speaks well of the other man, he will invariably start to abuse him, saying that he is reputed to be a cannibal, robber, great coward and so forth. Clans Eora is used specifically of the people around the first area of white settlement in Sydney. The generic term Eora generally is used with a wider denotation to embrace some 29 clans. The sizes of these clans could range from 20 to 60 but averaged around 50 members. -gal denominates the clan or extendeds family group affixed to the place name. Cammeraygal. (Port Jackson, North Shore, Manly Cove Wanegal. (South of the Parramatta River. Long Cove to Rose Hill) Gadigal. (South side of Port Jackson) Walumedigal. ("Snapper fish clan". North of the Parramatta River. Milson Point, North Shore opposite Sydney Cove). Burramattagal. ("Eel place clan"= at the source of the Parramatta River) Bidjigal. (Castle Hill) Norongeragal. (locality unknown) Borogegal. (Bradley Head) Garigal. (Broken Bay, or southern vicinity) Gweagal. (Southern shore of Botany Bay) The Wangal, Wallumettagal and Burramattagal constituted the three Parramatta saltwater peoples. It has been suggested that these had a matrilineal pattern of descent. Lifestyle The traditional Eora people were largely coastal dwellers and lived mainly from the produce of the sea. They were expert in close-to-shore navigation, fishing, cooking, and eating in the bays and harbours in their bark canoes. The Eora people did not grow or plant crops; although the women picked herbs which were used in herbal remedies. They made extensive use of rock shelters, many of which were later destroyed by settlers who mined them for their rich concentrations of phosphates, which were then used for manure. Wetland management was important: Queenscliff, Curl Curl and the Dee Why lagoons furnished abundant food, culled seasonally. Summer foods consisted of oyster, netted mullet caught in nets, with fat fish caught on a line and larger fish taken on burley and speared from rock ledges. As