A telegram from Frcmantle to the Melbourne Herald pn February 15 states: —In the course of his last annual report to the Chief Protector of Aborigines, the manager of the Moora Bulla and Violet Valley aboriginal stations stated that a new tribe recently visited Violet . Valley. It had evidently travelled a long distance, and was unknown to the other tribes there, who referred to the visitors as salt water blacks,' thereby intimating that they had come from near the coast. The natives wore no clothing whatever, not even the usual loin cloth, and could not understand English.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3339, 13 March 1918, Page 39
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