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Miscellaneous Notes
dangerous instrument as it may return & strike himself, but the natives can inflict the most dangerous wounds with it on others. The use of this instrument is entirely confined to the aborigines of Australia, by them it is used as an instrument of war or in their hunting excursions & was first known to Europeans in 1788.
List of War Instruments &c used by the Aborigines
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