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Phillips was speared badly too: Fortunately the Eoran legal system was so well developed that their \'givers of justice\' were well trained and the spearing was not fatal. It seems most Eoran justice, while violent, was designed to be non fatal. Bennelong and Colby used to turn up with new scars that were in their biceps, thighs, shoulders etc. When they wanted someone to die, like Pemulwey did with McIntyre, the Eoran would spear in the lung or kidney, and would crush stones and shells into the spear tip, so when the spear was finally removed there was matter in the body that would mean the lung or kidney would collapse. There was a definite distinction between ritualistic/legal violence and \'you are going to die\" violence.

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