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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

War Instruments Hunting and Working Tools
The war spear  10 feet long The fish spear  8 feet long
The Boomerang for war purposes The stone tomahawke
The War Nulla Nulla The [Tapar] for working spears
The [Wammera] for throwing Spears The Hunting Boomerang
The [Hilamar], a shield The hunting or throwing stick
The [Palolour] or battle axe The [Paramellan] Stick
  The [Waddie] a hunting stick
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