ion
(or, why was he so very angry)?
Bun-bury, you are very quarrelsome.
The young men behave very well, the old ones are always wrangling.
The young men paint themselves, and the women look at them; the young men
are not aware of this, but the old men are very jealous--and being in a
passion spear the young men--this is very wrong.
Now another Governor is come, and you people of Perth must fight no more.
This is very good.
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WARRUP'S ACCOUNT OF HIS JOURNEY WITH MR. ROE.
The following is Warrup's account of his journey with Mr. Roe in search
of the party left by me under Mr. Walker. (See above.):
1st day.
At Dundalup we ate fish; then onwards, onwards, onwards, till we slept at
Neerroba.
2nd day.
Onwards, onwards, till we reached Nowergoop, where the horses drank
water; then onwards, onwards, onwards, until Manbabee, where we ate flesh
and bread. Onwards, onwards, onwards, until Yungee, where we shot ducks,
and the horses drank water. Onwards, onwards, onwards, onwards, to
Boongarrup, where we slept one sleep.
3rd day.
Onwards through a forest, onwards through a forest, onwards through a
forest. We slept at Neergammy, a pleasant resting-place; the land was
good, the herbage good; pleasant was our resting-place, and our hut was
good.
4th day.
Onwards, onwards, onwards, we entered a woody country. Onwards, through a
forest, onwards through a forest; we now see the waters of Kajeelup: we
eat flesh and bread. Onwards through the forest, onwards through the
forest, onwards through the forest. We see the tracks of natives; we
shout aloud, and then proceed conversing with natives; they sit down.*
(*Footnote. They halt or remain.)
Onwards go we, onwards, onwards, onwards; the horses drink water;
by-and-bye we see tracks. Onwards, onwards, onwards; we see a large
water; we shoot ducks. On the one side we see two waters, on the other
side one water we see. Onwards, onwards, onwards, onwards, onwards; we
see no other water. Onwards through the forest, onwards through the
forest, onwards through the forest; we see a river. You had here eaten
freshwater mussels: at this river we sleep. Barramba is the place's name.
5th day.
Onwards through the forest, through the forest, through the forest,
through the forest onwards; water we see not. Through the forest onwards;
through the forest onwards; we see a water, but a worthless water. Yours
and Kaiber's footsteps we see. Here there is no gras
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