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CONTENTS

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CHAPTER VIII.—Belief in the Metempsychosis—Aboriginal Women—Powers of Mimicry—A "Barbarous" Practice—Tattooing—Modes of Fishing—Lex Talionis	62
CHAPTER IX.—Armoury—Utensils	76
CHAPTER X.—Funeral Notes—Sponsorial Custom—Juvenile Spirits—Personal Bravery—"Striking a Light"—The Bough of Peace	87
CHAPTER XI.—Misgivings—Tribes of Botany Bay and Port Jackson—Manly Cove and Rushcutters' Bay	95
CHAPTER XII.—Confidence and Caution—Capture and Escape of Binnelong and Cole-be—Subsequent History of Binnelong	105
CHAPTER XII.—Hospitality and Resentment—Primitive Art—Amputation of the Little Finger—Sorcery	118
CHAPTER XIV.—The "Rising" of 1842-4	130
CHAPTER XV.—The Myall Creek Massacre	141
CHAPTER XVI.—The Coo-ee—Numbers of the Aboriginals	155