ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY [October, 



;did not fu'ffer any thing to divert him from the bufinefs that he had in 

 hand, nor did he feem to be in the leaft defirous to have it quickly 

 .difpatched; but paid this laft rite with an attention that did honour to 

 his feelings as a man, as it feemed the refult of an heart-felt affection 

 for the object of it, of whofe perfon nothing now remained but a piece 

 or two of calcined bone. When his melancholy work was ended, he 

 flood for a few moments with his hands folded over his bofom, and 

 his eye fixed upon his labours in the attitude of a man in profound 

 thought. Perhaps in that fhort interval of time many ideas prefented" 

 themfelves to his imagination. His hands had juft completed the 

 laft fervice that he could render to a woman, who, no doubt, had been 

 /ui'eful to him ; one to whom he was certainly attached, and one who 

 had left him a living pledge of fome moments at leaft of endearment. 

 Perhaps under the heap which his hands had rai fed, and on which 

 •his eyes were fixed, his imagination traced the form of her whom he 

 might have fought for, and whom he was now never to behold again. 

 Perhaps, when turning from the grave of his deeeafed companion, 

 he directed all his thoughts to the prefervation of the little one that 

 -fhe had left him ; and when he quitted the fpot, his anxiety might 

 be directed to the child-,- with the idea that he might one day fee his 

 Ba-rang-a-reo revive in his little motherlefs Dil-boong. 



In conformity to their cuftom of not pronouncing the name of the 

 deeeafed, two females called Ba-rang-a-roo loft that, and took other 

 names. One of thefe (Cole-be's wife) furvived her but a Ihort time, 

 dying of a confumption brought on by iuckling a little girl who was 

 at her breaft when fhe died. This circumftance led to the knowledge 

 of a curious but horrid cuftom which obtains among thefe people. 

 The mother died in the town ; and when fhe was taken to the grave, 

 her corpfe was carried to the door of every hut and houfe that fhe 

 had been accuftomed to enter during the latter days of her illnefs, the 

 bearers prefenting her with the fame ceremonies as were ufed at the 

 funeral of Ba-loo-der-ry, when the little girl Dil-boong and the boy 

 Be-dia Be-dia were placed before his corpfe. 



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