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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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, rS^ AUSTRALIAN WARRIORS WATCHING A BOAT. They are expert in throwing spears, which they launch very accu-rately for distances of thirty or forty yards. Sometimes their spearsare a single piece of hard-wood tipped with bone, iron, or sharp stone;other spears have heads of hard-wood, while the shaft is a light reedwhich grows abundantly on the banks of most of the rivers of Austra-lia. The spears vary from six to eleven feet in length; I have seenspears fifteen feet long, but they were intended for fishing, and not forwar, though they were often used for fighting purposes.23 354 THE BOY TKAVELLEES IN AUSTKALASIA.
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BATTLE BETWEEN HOSTILE TRIBES OF AUSTRALIANS. A black in his wild state is rarely seen without a spear in his hand,and this reminds me of one of my early experiences. I went out in thebush one day with some of the friendly blacks, and had walked a shortdistance in front of them when one of the party stopped me. He mo-tioned for me to step to the rear, and then said, When you walk in bush along a blackfellow, you make himblackfellow walk first time (in front). When I asked what for, he replied, I den know. I believe debildebil jump up; want him blackfellow spear whitefellow. You can besure I took the hint, and ever afterwards allowed the blacks to take thelead. Several times since then friendly natives have told me that whena white man is walking in front of them there is an almost irresistibleinclination to spear him. They have a superstition which they express in these words: Blackfellow die, jump up whitefellow; which means that when ablack man dies he reappears as a white one. In t

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