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3 There would appear to have been among the tribes a national or a 
- teligious custom of burying the members after death on the spot — 
. carried on the shoulders of his father, and accompanied by the 
tribe, a distance of about 40 miles to the bank of the Hunter River, 
a ae ee | a4 “pay 1 Li 
y ards. ole was 
dug and lined with grass, the boy was rolled ina blanket, and placed 
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_ MGregor River, when the cook ran into the room and said that 
_ there was a black man outside, who insisted on cutting down 
of the posts of the kitchen door. Going out to expostulate 
‘ommenced digging operations, and they ul 
spot had been born one of the tribe who had died, and whom he 
‘countrymen wished to bury there. Women had also been seen” 
about the skeletons of men wrapped hides, . 
m. Q nsland, upon the death 
to go sometimes for the 
¥ got very mixed in their newly acquired theo 
m blackfellow went up to a gentleman on wv 
_ where they had been born. In one case a dying boy had been F 
