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During the early stages of its ravages the natives gave proper sepulture to its victims; but at last the death rate became so heavy, and naturally, the panic so great, burying the bodies was no longer attempted- the survivors merely moved their camps leaving the sick behind to die, unattended, and the dead to fester in the sun, or as food for wild dogs and carrion birds, until in a short time the whole atmosphere became tainted with the odour arising from the decomposing bodies...When the bright torrid summer displaced the moister spring, after devastating these tribes, gradually died out, leaving but a sorry remnant of the aborigines behind, to mourn the depopulation of the land, and many, many moons waxed and waned before the fell destroyer's foul presence was even partially forgotten. To this day the old men who bear such patent traces of the loathed distemper speak shudderingly and with so much genuine horror as it is impossible for any other evil to elicit from them their inherent stolidity'.
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114:Social organization
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152:Edward Eyre
108:Murrayville
29:Latje Latje
25:Latji Latji
1514:Queensland
1472:Munangabum
1451:Coranderrk
1178:Box Gulley
1147:Wurundjeri
1140:Wathaurung
1073:Coranderrk
1039:Wurundjeri
1032:Wotjobaluk
1025:Woiwurrung
1004:Warkawarka
990:Taungurung
948:Minyambuta
941:Mardidjali
787:Bungandidj
507:. AustLang
416:Brown 1918
356:Gandeet-or
329:Some words
314:(variant:
250:Wotjobaluk
176:Warkawarka
132:eagle-hawk
84:E. M. Curr
64:Latjilatji
21:Latjilatji
1220:Kow Swamp
1171:Bend Road
976:Pangerang
962:Ngurelban
885:Jari Jari
843:Gadubanud
808:Dhudhuroa
801:Dadi Dadi
511:27 August
374:Citations
316:Woortongi
168:Nari-Nari
1559:Category
1535:Victoria
1528:Tasmania
1274:See also
1133:Bunurong
927:Kwatkwat
892:Jupagalk
857:Gulidjan
759:Bidhawal
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386:AustLang
322:Source:
312:Wortongi
260:Boraipar
226:Jarijari
222:Kukabrak
180:Watiwati
164:Jitajita
160:Tatitati
156:Boraipar
124:Kailpara
120:moieties
80:Wadiwadi
76:Matimati
59:Language
49:ethnonym
1407:History
1046:Yalukit
1018:Wergaia
744:Peoples
611:2843422
497:Sources
265:Laitche
230:Wimmera
148:Mildura
146:in the
138:History
128:Makwara
104:Kulkyne
96:Mildura
90:Country
70:of the
31:are an
1373:Cases:
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920:Kurung
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246:exonym
198:Ronald
122:, the
1158:Sites
913:Kulin
906:Koori
668:Trove
649:Trove
630:Trove
607:JSTOR
342:Notes
335:manul
216:, in
53:latja
692:ISBN
541:ISBN
513:2022
200:and
126:and
78:and
47:The
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599:doi
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