Author: Batman, John,
Title: Journal, manuscript
Date: 10 May-11 June 1835.
Accession Number: MS13181
Transcript Number: pp0016-042-0
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that the men went up the River
they had four Native Dog's
and every woman had a
load of 60 or 70 lbs on her
back of one thing or another
each had two or three Baskets
Net bags Native tomahawks
bones &c &c. I found in one of
the Net bags a part of a strake
of a Cart Wheel - which had
two nail holes in they had
ground it down to a sharpe
edge and put it in a stick
to cut with as a tomahawk
tomahawk - they had also
several pieces of Iron hoop
ground sharp to cut with
several wooden Buckets to
carry water in they had some
water with them which was
verry bad - they came back
with us were I had some
Blankets, looking Glasses,

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