RECORD ID

1678

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

The aborigines of Victoria, volume 2; R. Brough Smyth

AUTHOR

Not specified

police court against an enemy. The Rev. Mr. Bulmer, in reply to my enquiries, writes thus : — " When the natives were angry, and abused each other, they used epithets similar to those of the very lowest class of Europeans ; not so bad on the side of blasphemy, but worse on the side of filth. No doubt the reason of this is that the Aboriginal has no superior spirit to bhisiiheme. As you desire specimens of the epithets used, I give them, as, no doubt, it is necessary, in writing of the Aboriginals, to give both sides of their character. In their mild way of scolding, when the cause of quarrel is not very serious, they generally.

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1. 01spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
2. 02spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
3. 03spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
4. 04spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
5. 05spirit in How did the Natives of Australia become Acquainted with the Demigods and Daemonia, and with the Superstitions of the Ancient Races?1854 · Internet Archive
6. 06spirit in How did the Natives of Australia become Acquainted with the Demigods and Daemonia, and with the Superstitions of the Ancient Races?1854 · Internet Archive