Notes from Bonwick's Book

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3.
buckets to carry water in. p 181
I had no trouble to find out their sacred marks, one of my
natives (Bungett) went to a [sign?] out of [?] of the human and made the
Sydney natives mark; after this was done I took with
two or three of my natives the principa, chief and showed
him the mark on the tree; this he knew immediately
and pointed to the knocking out of the teeth. This mark
is always made where the ceremony of knocking out the
teeth in the front is done. However after this I [?]
through my natives for when to make his mark, which
after looking about for some time and hesitating a few
minutes he took the tomahawk and cut out in the
bark of the tree his mark - which is attached to the [cloud?]
and is the signature of their country and tribe.
p 189

The [?] with their natives seems to base [?] [plain?]
since when [?] & [NE?} for the herd of [marsupioals?] when the
[Jyga Jyga?] tribe of natives. [?] says a little [?]
in that this interview took place near where the
Melbourne University stands & Rusden says it was
where the "old Colonists Association of [?] " have a site in which to
build their Home. p 195.

Surveyor G.H. Wedge says that
infanticide is practised when a child is [?] the [?] is