A History of Australia: The earth abideth for ever, 1851-1888Melbourne University Press, 1963 - Australia |
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... knew , and they knew , that the pick was but the hoe in another form . In Victoria , where the men had entertained great expectations , the balladists were prophets of a coming storm . At Bendigo early in 1854 one of the chief ...
... knew , and they knew , that the pick was but the hoe in another form . In Victoria , where the men had entertained great expectations , the balladists were prophets of a coming storm . At Bendigo early in 1854 one of the chief ...
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... knew himself to be , he had been God's instrument to bring glad tidings to benighted savages . Before he had taught them the Gospel , the old blacks had taught the young that when they died they went into a water - hole : those who had ...
... knew himself to be , he had been God's instrument to bring glad tidings to benighted savages . Before he had taught them the Gospel , the old blacks had taught the young that when they died they went into a water - hole : those who had ...
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... knew and so did his colleagues on the commission that the usefulness of the aborigines to such pioneer settlers could scarcely be overes- timated . But he also had given up hope that the aboriginal native would ever be more than a ...
... knew and so did his colleagues on the commission that the usefulness of the aborigines to such pioneer settlers could scarcely be overes- timated . But he also had given up hope that the aboriginal native would ever be more than a ...
Contents
THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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