Show courtship among the australian aborigines among the aboriginal blacks of australia courtship as the 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 somo other demae relation of his awni bufa if there should bo DO eligible damsel disengaged in the tribe to which he belongs then he hovers around the encampment of some other blacks until jie gets an kunits of seizing one of their leu bras whom he has seen and admired when attending one of the feasts his mode of pay ing his addresses is simple and with a blow of his war club he stuns the object of his affection and as she recovers her senses brings her home to his own gunyah in triumph another method with the wife stealer is to ascertain the camp fire beside which the girl whom he covets sleeps when he gains the knowledge ho requires regu ires he creeps close to the camp on some dark windy night and stretching out his spear inserts its barbed point among her thick flowing locks turning it slowly round some of her hair becomes entangled with it then with a sudden jerk she is aroused from her slumber and as her eyes open she feels the point of another weapon against her throat she nor screams she knows troll that the slightest attempt at escape or alarm will cause her instant death so like a sensible woman she makes a virtue of rising silently she follows her captor to begin a life of toil from which she is not released till death |