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nary revenge, they never exercife it but on their own fex, not daring 

 to ftrike a male. The little victim of this revenge had, from her quiet 

 tradable manners, been much beloved in the town ; and, which is a 

 lingular trait in the inhumanity of this proceeding, had, from the death 

 of the man, requefted that his widow might be fed at the officer's hut, 

 where £he herfelf refided. Savage indeed muft be the cuftora and the 

 feelings which could arm the hand againft this unoffending child's 

 life. Her death was not avenged, perhaps becaufe they confidered it 

 as an expiatory facrifice. 



Wat-te-wal, the man who committed the crime for which this little 

 girl fuffered fo cruelly, efcaped unhurt from the fpears of Ben-nil-long, 

 Cole-be, and feveral other natives ; and was afterwards received by* 

 them as ufual, and actually lived with the murdered man's widow 

 till he was killed in the night by Cole-be, as has been before re- 

 lated. 



It now remains to mow, what followed where the perfon died a na- 

 tural death. 



Bone-da, a very fine youth, died of a cold, which fettling in his 

 face, terminated in a mortification. It w r as underftood that fome blood 

 muft be fried on the occafion ; and fome weeks after a large party of 

 natives belonging to different tribes, being affembled at Pan-ner-rong 

 (which in the language of the country fignifies blood), the fpot which 

 they had often chofen for their battles, after dancing and feafting over 

 night, early in the morning, Mo-roo-ber-ra the brother, and Cole-be, 

 another relation of the dead youth, feized upon a lad named Tar-ra- 

 bii-long, and with a club each gave him a wound in his head which 

 laid his fkull bare. The fifter of Bone-da had her fhare in the bloody 

 rite, pufhing at the guiltlefs boy with a fhort fpear, and leaving him in 

 fuch a ftate, that the furgeons of the fettlement pronounced, from the 

 nature of his wounds, that his recovery was rather doubtful. On 

 being fpoke to about the bufinefs, he faid he did not weep or cry out 

 like a boy, but, like a man, cried Ki-yah when they ftruck him; that the 

 perfons who treated him in this unfriendly manner were no longer his 



enemies, 



