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by a day, we shall take more care next time, & you shall have heads when I can get any, but the Natives burn their dead: no European has yet seen the ceremony, but it is probable you may have a very particular account of it, nevertheless, for the numbers of authors have increased.
The young Kangurro sent by the Supply, will, I hope live to be presented to His Majesty & I shall send another by the Gorgon for the same purpose. You will see the skin of a Mul-go-a, or black Swan, which I have sent to Mr Pitt, it is as far as I know the only skin of the kind which has been well preserved, although four or five of those birds have been killed. It is in Spirits with a
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