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were. They were also good singers, mid many of them had really good voices. Some of the half-castes were also good looking, especially one young girl named Corric, she woe housemaid for Mrs. Green, and a very good housemaid she was loo. She was also a good scholar, and had written several letters to Queen Victoria, and she also received nice replies to her letters from the Queen. Corric got married to tbo agricultural manager, Mr. Harris, an Englishman. She is now dead, and Ir. Ilurrit, 1 have heard, is married to another half-caste. I have seen us inuuy as six marriages with only one ceremony. Mr. Hamilton, a l'resbvteriau minister of Fitnroy, performed the ceremony; but there were many other clergymen of various other denominations, including the ltov. Dr. Vance, now Dean of Melbourne, and father of our worthy Dr. Vance, of Bacchus Marsh. Their religions teaching was Christianity without any 80 articles or a creed, which 1 think would be much better for the whites as well as blacks. King Sirnou was a very serious ami good Christian man. Ife told me the natives always believed in the Great Spirit. They also believed in the Spirit of Evil, but formerly they had to drink of a certain kind of water—the water of the moon, which was not cosily got, before salvation was secured. Their native laws wore very strictly curried out, and the punishment* for crime wcro extremely severe. They believed that when a black died his spirit outcred into a white child at or before its birth, and remained in if. for tbo ohildjs life-time; after the death of the white it_______i_____ .... .i.. ip:.
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Bacchus Marsh Express
Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, AU
Sat, Jan 26, 1895
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