[A Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay by Watkin Tench]@TWC D-Link bookA Narrative of the Expedition to Botany Bay CHAPTER XI 5/13
One of them is now in the possession of the Governor, and tolerably well reconciled to his new master.
As the Indians see the dislike of the dogs to us, they are sometimes mischievous enough to set them on single persons whom they chance to meet in the woods.
A surly fellow was one day out shooting, when the natives attempted to divert themselves in this manner at his expense.
The man bore the teazing and gnawing of the dog at his heels for some time, but apprehending at length, that his patience might embolden them to use still farther liberties, he turned round and shot poor Dingo dead on the spot: the owners of him set off with the utmost expedition. There is no part of the behaviour of these people, that has puzzled us more, than that which relates to their women.
Comparatively speaking we have seen but few of them, and those have been sometimes kept back with every symptom of jealous sensibility; and sometimes offered with every appearance of courteous familiarity.
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