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Buckley's Birth, Parentage, and Education,—Apprenticed to a Bricklayer.—Runs away and Enlists for a Soldier.—Joins the Cheshire Militia, and then a Regiment of the Line.—Embarks for Holland.—Battle between the French and Allied Forces.—Returns to England.—Gets into bad company: tried, and sentenced.—Goes in the Calcutta, with a party of convicts to Port Phillip.—Ship arrives.—Prisoners and the Guard of Marines land.—Absconds, with several others.—Separates from his companions.—Alone in the Wilderness.—Sufferings in the Bush—Nooraki.
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Discovered by the Natives.—Visit the Tribe.—Alarmed by Sea Elephants.—Native Grave.—Found nearly dead by Native Women, whose husbands make me Prisoner.—Fight.— Corrobberree.—Unexpectedly find some very extraordinary Relations.—The first Paletôt.—Another Battle, in which men and women are killed.—Bodies burnt.—Challenge to fight given and accepted.—Elopements, and their consequences.—Kangaroo hunt.
17—36