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at nights when in camp, and they never wandered
about after dark, but I do not think they had any
other anusement at the camp, They made songs, sometimes
in English = very funny, I will give you one they used to
sing "Billy Bumbles got him murry petty fellow pussey
cat = that fellow bin piallow Mew Mew Mew" then
they would give a yell, and that over and over again.
Billy Bumbles was William Starten, lived on the bank of the
River above Finonee then = Another one = I forget that
= it began "Tee tah Carpintah then something about
the row he made with a saw = I have lost it = that
they woiuld repeat over and over again, this was
about all their amusement except "Corobrie" = Now
you must not confuse this "Corobrie" with the "Man
making" that I will come to later on, The "Corobrie"
was onlly a dance = it had no regious[?] meaning
the words were not understood, and were passed
from one district to another = I was told always from
the North to the South, This is the leagend I have been
told by the Darkies when I have been talking about that
"A long, long time ago, there was a wonderful man
who came from [?] South, no one knows where
he was a wonderfull man = and he made songs and
dances and taught the Blacks to sing and dance
them = but when they had learned them they were
obliged to take them on to the next tribe and they
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