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A wirlu is used so as to ward
off discourage a weapon thrown at
them. They have besides various sorts
of cudgles or [indecipherable]
[words crossed out] the Aborigines
occasionally have become guilty of
cannibalism [word crossed out] I have fully ascertained
but it was never so general as for instance
among the New Zealander.
Infanticide occurs not unfrequently
[word crossed out] though it would seem it is done
by some unfair means, as it would hardly be approved of to be done openly
rather clandestinely ^ [word crossed out] Actual murder
is punished often with immediate death
without much ceremony of a trial, so long as
there is what we call the Amoral proof, legal
forms are not known.
Their Government may be said to be
democratic, with a [indecipherable] of [word crossed out] the patriarchal
or aristrocratic, the elderly men form a
kind of senate or hold a council at which often
long speeches are made, frequently delivered
with a degree of gracefulness. Some respected
warriors or shrewd men may have a kind of lead