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cufloms that is wholly irreconcilable with the humane duties which 

 they have prefcribed to therafelves in the above inftance ; duties which 

 relate only to thofe children who, in the event of lofmg the mother, 

 could live without her immediate aid. A far different lot is referved 

 for fuch as are at that time at the bread, or in a date of abfolute help- 

 leflhefs, as will be feen hereafter. 



We have mentioned their being divided into families. Each family 

 has a particular place of refidence, from which is derived its diftin- 

 guifhing name. This is formed by adding the monofyllable gal to the 

 name of the place : thus the fouthern (hore of Botany Bay is called 

 Gwea, and the people who inhabit it flile themfelves Gweagal. Thofe 

 who live on the north fhore of Port Jackfon are called Cam- mer- ray- 

 gal, that part of the harbour being diftinguifhed from others by the 

 name of Cam mer-ray. Of this lad family, or tribe, the fettlers had 

 heard Ben-nil-long and other natives fpeak (before they were other- 

 wife known) as of a very powerful people, who could oblige them to 

 attend wherever and whenever they directed. They were afterwards 

 found to be by far the mod numerous tribe yet difcovered. It fo hap- 

 pened, that they were alio the moil: robuft and mufeular, and that 

 among them were feveral of the people ftyled Car-rah-dy and Car- 

 rah-di-gang, of which extraordinary perfonages we lhall have to 

 fpeak particularly, under the article Superstition. 



To the tribe of Cam-me- ray alfo belonged the exclufive and extra- 

 ordinary privilege of exacting a tooth from the natives of other tribes 

 inhabiting the fea-coaft, or of all fuch as were within their authority. 

 The exercife of this privilege places thefe people in a particular point 

 of view ; and there is no doubt of their decided fuperiority. Many 

 contefts, or decifions of honour (for fuch there are among them), have 

 been delayed until the arrival of thefe people; and when they came, 

 it was impoffible not to obferve the fuperiority and influence which 

 their number and their mufcular appearance gave them. 



Thefe are all the traces that could ever be difcovered among them 

 of government or fubordination ; and we may imagine the deference 



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