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and caiititni bUlBg^ Overcome in some degree, 



by cui'iosity.* 



TliL' Hi'ld of wlu^at at tliis station bi'iiig just 

 npc, a man was obliged to be ahnost constantly 

 oa Hie wateh, to preveat the white eoek- 

 atoos" from, attack i 11*2,' and destroviii^' it. These 

 liirtis are named \\'ai;ara," or Mmiieii,"' 

 by the altorigines : tliey were not yet very 

 numerous^ as the harvest was earlier than usual ; 

 hut last yeaa:^ I was told, the mson was later^ 



* When on one ocnision the head of a miUw u;i< under 

 exaitttlifttioi>} a genUeman present asked tlie wondering b]acik> 

 " il'ijte kn^vimt was doing to his toeiidi'* Bkcfcee an- 

 swered m itegStTve. " Why you will im tatit& be able to 

 catch kangaroos or opossums." No eoon^ was this said^ 

 than the black started aw'a.y in an^jer, seke^ andfleuriBhcd 

 his spuar, exclainiin*;, " What for you do tliat ? What for 

 you do all the same that I" And tlie unfortunate manipulate)!- 

 of savage craniums, as alfeO his companion, began to bu ajjpi c- 

 henslvcr^hat^e practice of the science was ma hig^ dsgcee 

 dangerous among uiicivili?ed beings. 



On another occasion, the temporal muscle was fbund IMt^ 

 usually large in the head of a nativi^ black uiulcr investiga)- 

 tiqns this was n uiarkctl by the phivntjlogist to u gentleman 

 who stood near hiuu at tlie same time squeezing it, and saying 

 to blflidkce^ ** OMm^ « Ah r' cxiiEamied the 



black as he made olf at a rapid |>acc". " me nnu see whal you 

 want; you want jnitta/ (eat.^ and escaped as (piickly as 



pxf0M ^ memm misMl upp^u^ lie supposed 

 the phrenologist to pos&cm* 



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