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LIFE OF BUCKLEY.
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CHAPTER III.
HUNTING THE KANGAROO, EMU, AND OPOSSUM.—WILD DOGS.—HAVING THE BEST OF A BARGAIN.—SPEARING FISH.—EEL CATCHING.—MANNER OF COOKING.—GENERAL FIGHT: SEVERAL NATIVES KILLED.—DISPOSAL OF THE DEAD.—SUPERSTITIOUS CEREMONIES.—REFLECTIONS ON SAVAGE LIFE.—SWAN HUNTING—GATHERING EGGS.—THE BUNYIP.—MORE CORROBBERREES, FIGHTS, AND MURDERS.
"Outcast and hopeless, here I dwell,
A dreary desert where I roam."
I now begin to understand something of their language: of their customs I had seen quite enough; but what could I do?—how could I escape?
We next joined, the Bengali tribe, and went with them to their hunting ground, a place surrounded by the sea and the Barwin River—each, tribe having its particular locality, which they considered a sort of inheritance. Here we erected our huts, and killed a
