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four white women, and seven white men. He accounted for this by saying that Mr Robinson had with him two men who had been taken by the Sealers to the islands in the Straits, and his mother yet remained with the white on the an island. In all the incursions made by the Blacks into the settlements, it is has never been known that a single white woman has been violated by any of them.

Notwithstanding a very few instances to the contrary, the Aboriginal females are modest in their discourse, and discreet in their manners. The females, although in a state of nudity, would invariably, when sitting down, do so in a decent posture.

No marriage ceremonies are performed amongst them, if the parties can agree, they form a connexion which cannot be dissolved unless the husband chuses to give her up, and then she may seek another husband. The women have an unaccountable aversion to marrying one of their relations, and even a man of their own tribe. An aboriginal Female of the Port Davy Blacks proceeded seventy miles with Mr Robinson's mission to seek a husband in preference to any of her own kindred or friends.

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