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faces painted with fancy paterns, all with
white Pipe clay ("Milbak"), broad stripes down
their thihgs and legs, down their arms, and across
the chest and sides marking out the ribs, a
Boomerang in one hand and a Nunamulla
in the other - these they held up over the head with
their arms extended, their legs were extended full
stretch so that they almost touched each others
feet on each side and gave their legs a tremulus
motion hard to describe, and giving a jump now
and then, not very high but all in correct time
and saying "Ough!" so correct that it sounded
almost like one Man, then al at once they would
wheel around and as they had no pipe clay
on their backs and were not close to the fire
they all suddenly seemed to disapear, as if the
Bush had swallowed them up = they would keep
on at that half the night = They had another one that
I did not see, in that there was a [?] put up and
the top of it was cut something lke the shape
of a Man's head, eyes & nose & mouth, and raddled
over = Another I did not see was danced about
Maritins at "Tulere"[?] (a hollow log or tree) in that a
Stage was erected of saplins, I don't know what
for, Ben Ford, who went from here overland
to the Tweed River said he saw the remains of
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