New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-08-11
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religious impressions IN th4 tlg S0z.y A. IS =
can't think. These people, ~ a. IA
they do not even worship idols, b1t aI
ish fear Of some harming spirit equivaIeGS Z s. =
our children call Old Bogie, and of III ID -
which the spirits of the dead may hsSe 0see t. IS
They believe, too, in magical powers. They cHi9
to their boundless plains and their forests WITH
tenacious animal instincr which nothing can ques
neither good matters, good clothes, good tood, -
the most excellent religious instruction. ca1 evar
two or three examples Of this. sss 81 ss
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A lady took girl Of eight or ni60 1eaxe eate ~
the Ab0rigines school at Adelaide, md -
as q companion to her little daughter 1htf
under the auspices Of her kind mistress, read Wel
her ways, went to church regularly every Sunday,
sang hymns nicely, and said her catechiam pexfocl.
This lasted about three years, at which period u
girl must have attained twelve One day she CO.
people can look pale enough sometmsa) saying that
She had seen in the street the young man desned ~
her family to be her husband and that abe wlhed toE0
back with him imMediateiy. Her nlistreas endeasoia
to quiet her BY ceiling her that il abe . A1o5e
again the offender should he given into custody Gla
also ordered the girl not to go ont aione. For tu q
three months all went well, and the girl bad a1nt
forgotten her fright when uniucky eyerIn9s -
lady needing some little thin, eeat hel e a.
boring shop to purchase II. y sss
In about ten minutes the poor girl fnshed ID wildly,
and weeping, told her mistress that ah9 must AoW,
indeed leave her, for her lover had met te I'D tg6
her that having given his sister as wife to h oer,
her brother had in return given her TO him tthiI
change seems 70 be universal custom among the
Australian aborgines) that the old Of the tribe
had sent to say, that ii she would not obey their aw
and return Immediately they would soIemnly cur1o
all that she should eat or drink, and that nhe knew
their power SO well that she dared not resist IT, Altar
this second interview not all that the lady did q eid
could tranquilize the mind Of the scared and stcted
girl. She neglected her dutes shs refused - u
ment, even that on her mistress's tabe, eaiua taG
it was accursed to her. The doctor Mas called
in, and both his rhetoric and physic Were unsnc~
cessfully employed. They began to have serious ap-
prehensions about her health, when one morning, hsf
bedroom was found untenanted-the occupant had
flown; yes, had jumped out of the window hefofe tha
dawn Of day, and had fed away naked into her natve
woods, unpossessed Of single article Of clothing or
anything else, to propitate the anger Of the old n
of her tribe and to obey the mysterious impulses a
q savage nature.
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MYSTERIES OF THE NIGHT.-There is nothing very
odd in my feeling nervous when happen to He
awake and get listening for sounds. Just keep ypur
eyes open any time after midnight. when you ~
lying in bed in lone attic OF dark night What
horrid, strange, suggestive, unaccountable Jon
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