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Habiis and cnstonaso ofthe Nativeso of Nczo

 soath Hates.-Nhen one dies natu- ral death, the corpse, shrouded in pie ces of bark, is laid on the ground, and four small fires are lighted at the head and feet on either side. A grave is scratched up in the ground and another fire lighted in the hole, which is allow ed to burn out, the body of the deceas- ed is then laid upon'the ashes, with any

 little property which belonged to him. his club, his spear, his clothes-and the earth is heaped over all. But if the person fell in war, or bis blood was shed

 by murder or chance-medley, his body is not buried, but burnt to dust. Like all sayages, the New Hollanders use their women cruelty. They get their wives byviolence, seizing them hy storm, or springing upon them from ambush when, II the unfortunate female makes any resistance, her uncourteous suitor knocks her down with his wadd,.(a tre- mendous cudgel, and carries her of. on his shoulders, in state of insensibility, " ANi' esi1 RiRod tiOttl liIG lOtG tokens which he has inflicted on her, Ever afterwards she Is his slave; at meals she and her daughters sit behind her husband and her sons, picking the bones. or gorging on the refuse of the garbage with which the lordly sex ap- pease their glnttony, and which are oc- casionally thrown to them, as dogs arc fed in poor mans family in England. Their cross, deformed, and diseased chil- dren are often killed out of the way. but they are very fond of those whom they rear. From the quick and eager exercise of their eyes, in seeking for their prey, they are exceedingly keen sighted, and discover birds in the trees. or yenomous reptiles in the grass. where

 s.urePeans See aothing. Or serpelats tbeyare much afraid, and flee from them as from death. They-are proportional Y sKilia'l lntraeNing the kangaroo, the e emu, or any other animal over the grass.