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situated, and stalked majestically into the middle of the billings- 
gating galours. Hi 
hailed by mewith considerable pleasure, and the heated dark-skinned 
were welling over with genuine tears because of my departure, 
she could not help referring to the day of the dog-slaughter by 
rations, and really, when well cooked in one of their ve these 
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ever, never had sufficient courage to partake 0 this dog meat, but 
ave seen plenty of it taken from the ovens, and it always looked 
white and delicate as chicken. : 
A puppy dingo, when in good condition, is esteemed quite & 
rag therefore an aboriginal having such a dish fancies that he 
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Tt is not by any means an uncommon thing for a galour to have 
it can easily be imagined the enormous dimensions which packs 
— when all the members of a tribe are assembled in one 
p. 
In connection with these dogs and the habit the aborigines 
have of making bedfellows of them, there is one feature which I 
