Marriage in the Bush

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Some of the sights we saw, will stay with me forever. I remember one day, we walked into a very large bush camp, two Aborigine men were fighting, we didn't know what was going on and things looked like they were getting ugly, so I jumped in and decked one of them, turning towards the other one, he amazed me and just back off. I went over to the guy I had decked and helped him to his feet, he was near tears, I felt I had really hurt him. But little did I know what I had done. Their chief welcomed us and we were invited to stay for the night. </div> <div> There was a feast organised, Witchetty grubs were on the menu and Goanna's, the grubs can be found inside the roots of trees. they taste very sweet, they have no legs they tend to pull themselves along, they are best eaten just after you catch them, or cooked over an open fire. The Goannas really need to be cooked, I don't know of anyone that has them raw, they taste a bit like chicken, white and juicy. We were honoured to sit next to their leader, well after dinner one of the local Aborigine ladies walked up to where we were sitting and put her arms around me, now I don't mind women putting their arms around me, but a warning bell went off in my head, we asked our tracker and interpreter what was going on, he told us that the fight we had broken up was between two men who were fighting for the hand of this girl and as I had beat both of them then she was to become my wife. I was stunned :) No matter what we did from then on, we couldn't insult these people, so I asked to speak to the guy I had decked, he told me through his interpreter that he really loved this girl, but I was the winner. Nothing we said could change the outcome, but...he told me that if I challenged him to a fight and lost then he would marry her. Well I was all for it. Now in the bush their are no gentleman rules, you keep hitting until the body stops moving. </div> <div> Well for 3 minutes, I took everything he laid out, I went down and he followed, I started to think he was enjoying beating the crap out of me. Finally he stopped, and went off to claim his wife. We wanted to leave camp ASAP, and that's when the guy who had beat me made a mistake, he started showing off and telling everyone how easy it was to beat a white man. I really didn't appreciate his tone, so I walked up to him and grabbed him in the crotch area and squeezed hard, well all I can say is that before I let go, he gave out a blood curdling scream. Next thing I know , here comes running towards me the woman of all this trouble, I remember running as fast as I could out of that camp and not looking back. </div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>