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and wood tell any lies that they thought wood please
that they can not be depended on for information
Often Blacks were killed and we never found out
why - When we had Cooplacurraph they killed an Old
Blackfellow for somethinkg that we never found out, he
left the camp in company with two other Blacks and
never returned - the killed him and put him into a
hollow log we found out after sometime, but why
he was killed we never knew = most likely he had broken
some law and had to be killed, As I am writing about
the "Totems" you must understand that their marraige\
laws were very strict, A Man must take a wife from
another "Totem" than thier own, Any Black having to do
with a woman of his own "Totem" was killed at once
and the Woman as well = They have all to me that
that was kept more strictly than any of their laws - but
laterly that has not been kept up sp ,icj.- they have
given up many of their old customs. The "Blow up" I
mentioned before was when a Black had broken a
law, he had to stand up at a tree and one of the
head men threw spears at him; it depended on the gravity
of the charge against him how many were thrown at
him, I went up Stoney Creek one day, there was a
lot of Blacks camping up htere - A lot in from Larrays
Flat amongst them was one named "Bobby belonging
to Robert" there were two Bobbies in that Tribe one
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