STRENUOUS PROPOSAL.
Among the aboriginal blacks of Australia, courtship as the precursor of marriage is unknown.
When a young warrior is desirous of procuring a wife, he generally obtains one by giving in exchange for her a sister or some oth<?r female relative of his own ; but if there should happen to be no eligible damsel disengaged in the tribe to which he belongs, then he hovers around the encampment of some other blacks until he gets an opportunity o' seizing one of their lubras, whom perhaps he has seen and admired when attending one of the corroborees.
His mode of paying his addresses is simple and efficacious. With a blow of his war-club he stuns the object of bis “affections,” and, as she recovers her senses, brings her home to his own gunyah in triumph.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2337, 27 January 1913, Page 7
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136STRENUOUS PROPOSAL. Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2337, 27 January 1913, Page 7
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