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Title: The boy travellers in Australasia : adventures of two youths in a journey to the Sandwich, Marquesas, Society, Samoan and Feejee islands, and through the colonies of New Zealand, New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Knox, Thomas Wallace, 1835-1896 Harper & Brothers. pbl
Subjects: Voyages and travels Adventure and adventurers Tutors and tutoring Friendship Sailing Sailors Animals Natural history
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston University

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^ starved ; in another he is shaved,painted with mud and pigments, and compelled to sit in a pool of dirtvwater for a whole day, while the rest of the tribe pelt him with mud ; inanother he has two of his front teeth knocked out; and in another theyoung beard on his chin is plucked out by the roots. In everv casepain is inflicted, so that the valor of the youth can be tested ; and he isexpected to endure everything without flinching. During the night we had an alarm which roused us from sleep,and for a few moments it looked as though we were to have seriousbusiness. There was a yell in the forest near us, and as we sprang out
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THE NUJHT ALARM. of our blankets and went to the front of the tent, we saw a crowd ofnatives in war-paint brandishing their spears and waddies, and actingas though they intended to attack us. Some of them were hideouslypainted, and altogether the spectacle was not a pleasing one. After a 436 THE BOY TEAVELLERS IN AUSTRALASIA. few demonstrations they retired, and our host told us it was a part ofour entertainment, to show how a night attack was made by the abo-riginals. The mimic attack was quite sufficient for our purposes, and wewere quite willing not to pass through the experience of a real one.We were told that had the attack been actual, the first warning of itwould have been the hurling of spears, Yery often it happens that acamping party of white men has no knowledge that natives are withinmany miles of them until the spears begin dropping in their midst.Our host was once in a party of this sort; they were eight in all; fiveof them were killed or wounded by the spears; but the r

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