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TRIBAL GOVERNMENT
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were onlookers, and each party camped on the side of the meeting-ground nearest to their own country, and all the camps faced the morning sun.

When the meeting took place, the women were left in
FIG. 17.—BOOMERANGS OF VICTORIAN TRIBES.
the camps, and the men went a little way off. The Bunurong man stood out in front of his people armed with a shield. Pacing him were the kindred of the dead Meymet man some nine or ten in number, who threw so many spears and boomerangs at him that you could not count them.