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on ' "Your lot, Oh! you have got to go and bring in the boys from the Bush "By God you know too much" and he went to he camp and left one to go on = I know from the pains on his face and on the others with him what part they had to perform = you will understand from this how particular they were about all connected with it. It was only by pretending to know that I could get any thing from them about it, I am, I think, the only White in this district that has taken any trouble to find out. Mr Wm Wynter, who speaks their language fluently has told me that he could not find our any thing from them except something about two spirits - which they could tell him nothing about, All they could tell was that Blackfellows always did so, and I could never find out that anything was told or explained to the boys by the old men, I think myself that it is the remains of some old Fire worship in some form which has been completely lost, I thought for a long time that the Blacks in and about this district were not up to the mark as in other districts = at the Man Making the front tooth of the Boys was knocked out, it was not done here since the Whites came, but I find
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