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wliicli tlu'V liiul coiiiiiiitted i^'i Itiirliaroiis an act. 

 Ii i- -t'ltlmii rlu'v Mill cniifess liaving (lostmyt'tl 

 lln'ir oirspriiio" : oiii', liowever, wlio had a cliild 

 by ail European, acknowledgud it roadily ; and 



t^sism . ^vm ht ^ cmm^m im its 



localise lie Jiifant, like its papa, liud a carroty 

 ])nn,"" and thus rcsenil)led, in colour, the liair of 

 thu native dog, which is certainly not so haudsonie 



phiy, in other instances, an extraordinary degree 

 of affection for their dead offspring, eA'idcnced 

 hy an act that ahnost exceeds credibility, had it 

 not so liiem lijtiiessed among the tribes in 

 •the iolmor of the i3®Io«iy. I dlndte U the fact 



of deceased icMJdjWi from the earliest an;e to 

 even six or seven years, being' placed in a 

 hag, rnadf nf kangaroo skin, and shing upon 

 the back of the mother, who, besides this ad- 



diii^mdl botd^i o^tde^ her vmM neM^,, m 

 CKi^,* J6?y proYisioiis, &c. They eany thi^ tfewB 

 for ten or twelve months, sleeping upon th^I»m 

 of mortal remains, wliieb serves them for a pil- 

 low, a]>parcntly nnmimlful of thv. horrid fcetor 



" *' Nttbul," {the nct-ba^ of the aborigines,) is a cor- 

 rupted mtvfti ^txid r ** adf* h of the liative atipoK 

 lUti^tts. 



