The Waitara natives who are in favour of selling their land tell me that it is customary among them when laying out boundaries of land to let the party doing so include the portions of other people without obstinate resistance as that might lead to the drawing of blood which would occasion all the land to go to the party claiming it in payment for the blood drawn even if not an owner or in taking or stealing Karakas from each other they careffully avoid bloodrawing for fear the thief might by this means become proprietor of the Karaka trees on which the fruit was gathered.