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Early Australian Voyages

CHAPTER XXI: REMARKS UPON THE VOYAGE
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Their weapons are chiefly lances, swords and slings, and some bows and arrows.

They have also wooden fish-spears for striking fish.

Those that came to assault us in Slinger's Bay on the main are in all respects like these, and I believe these are alike treacherous.

Their speech is clear and distinct.

The words they used most when near us were _vacousee allamais_, and then they pointed to the shore.


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