Author: Batman, John,
Title: Journal, manuscript
Date: 10 May-11 June 1835.
Accession Number: MS13181
Transcript Number: pp0016-067-0
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seemed quite pleased to see
me walk about with them
on - I asked them to accompany
me to the Vessel, they verry
properly pointed to the
number of Young Children,
and then at their feet, meaning
that they could not walk, but
said they would come down
in a few day’s - I had no
trouble to find out their
sacred marks . One of my
Natives / Bungitt / went to
a tree out of sight of the
Women, and made the Sydney
Natives mark, after this was
done I took, with two or
three of my Natives, the
Principal Chief, and shewed
the mark, on the tree this
He New immediately
and pointed to the Knocking
out of the teeth, this mark

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