Lindsay also observed indigenous living conditions in particular on the Northern Territory expedition. Lindsay records a 'solitary mia-mia (temporary shelter) formed of bamboo thickly thatched with grass , 6 ft high 10 ft in diameter ..with one entrance…so small I had the greatest difficulty in squeezing through it…the natives told me that when occupied , the entrance was stopped up with grass to keep out mosquitoes. It was used at the beginning of the wet season (to gather) wild fowls eggs and a stopping place from one route to another during the wet season' Lindsay also observes 'manufacture of rope and string out of fibre plants. Baskets are woven so closely as to be water tight'  . Communication was also swift with one communication of the 'murder of a white man…conveyed over 200 miles in less than twenty-four hours'. Lindsay believed that the Northern Territory could support extensive pastoral ground and in Arnheim (sic) Land gold, silver, copper and tin had already been discovered.