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Updated: May 15, 2025
Occasionally a mob of these wilder aboriginals would make a descent upon the quieter coast-blacks, and after a fight would carry off women and other spoils, such as opossum rugs, spears, shields, coolamins vessels of wood or bark, like small canoes, for carrying water and they usually killed several of the men of the conquered race.
The advancing party, however, turned out to be only two women coming for water to the well. They had vessels, usually called coolamins these are small wooden troughs, though sometimes made of bark, and are shaped like miniature canoes for carrying water to their encampment. When they came near enough to see what I was, they ran away a short distance, then stopped, turned round, and looked at me.
Of course I gave a gentle bow, as to something quite uncommon; a man may bend his lowest in a desert to a woman. I also made signs for them to come to the well, but they dropped their bark coolamins and walked smartly off. I picked up these things, and found them to be of a most original, or rather aboriginal, construction.
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