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sticks, spears & Boomerangs, The men were very kind to
them in their way = When moving Camp the Women carrie[d]
all the household traps, you would meet them, the
Women loaded up, but the Men only carried the
fighting & hunting implements = They kept the Gins
in fear of a stick pretty well - used to give them a hiding
now and again to keep them in order = The Women and
Boys were kept in ignorance of what took place at
the "Cabra ground" It was death for a Blackfellow
to devulge anything about it or to let a Woman see the
"Cabra stones" (I will tell you about the "Cabra" further
on) Betty, a half caste woman we had at Cooplacurraph
told me that when she was a little girl on the McLeay
and was at the Camp with her Mother (she was a
Black Gin) the Old Men took one of the Gins away in the
Bush from the Camp and killed her, and skined
her, and brought the skin into the camp to let all
the Gins see it, and let them know that they would
serve them the same if they tried to coax their men
to tell them anything that was forbiden = Bet used
to say they were almopst frightened to death, and
I beleive her = The Womans crime was that she had
coaxed her man to show her the "Cabra stones" he
was killed as well, most likely she had let it out
to some of the other Gins that her man had let her
see them and it hd got to the ears of the Old Men
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