 | John Forrest Baron Forrest - Australia - 1875 - 434 pages
...one before either. We also found about a dozen pieces of wood, some six feet long and three to seven inches wide, and carved and trimmed up. All around were stones put up in the forked trees. I believe it is the place where the rite of circumcision is performed. Barometer... | |
 | Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. South Australian Branch - Australia - 1886 - 1090 pages
...his camp, &c. We also found about a dozen " pieces of wood, some 6ft. or 7ft. long and Sin. to 7in. wide, and " carved and trimmed up. All around were stones put up in the " forked trees. I believe it is the place where the rite of circum" cision is performed." The pieces... | |
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... were apparently about two feet deep, and covered with boughs and wood ; they are the first I have ever seen in all my travels to the eastward in Australia, and Windich says he has never come across one before either. We also found about a dozen pieces... 