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Aborigines of Van Diemen s Land. 
Diemen’s Land. She was much better looking than the abo¬ 
rigines, and had very fine long silky hair. She told me that the 
tribe to which she belonged were cannibals ; that they had 
originally come from the northward, and killed the tribe whose 
country they had invaded. May it not have been a remnant of 
this latter tribe, that first peopled the north-east coast of Van 
Diemen’s Land ? 
November 12, 1845. 
