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a duel amongst them of course as a matter
of honor [word crossed out]. Various weapons
are employed in their duels it may
be the spear or the the cudgel or some other
weapon such as the [written above: [indecipherable] or] mulga shaped
like the boomerang but at one end
[word crossed out] fashioned something like an axe. [words crossed out]
[words crossed out] Both parties
have their their friends to watch them. They feel
most indignant to be called cowards,
still I must confess most of them
often display great cowardice, [word crossed out]
from whatever motive, they were on
most occasions glad, if some one,
especially a European, interfered &
prevented a conflict. [crossed out: even when
it came to quarrel between dif-
ferent tribes] I was sometimes both
pleased & amused when any one of them
was afraid to fight a duel, or when
a number where to enter into some
combat or a whole tribe into a battle
with another tribe, one [word crossed out] party
would usually inform me with
much apparent alarm as to the seri-
ousness of the affair with a view that
I might interfere. This I generally

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