 | Edward John Eyre - Aboriginal Australians - 1845 - 564 pages
...CRIMES AGAINST EUROPEANS — AMONGST THEMSELVES TREATMENT OF EACH OTHER IN DISTRIBUTION OF FOOD, ETC. THERE is scarcely any point connected with the subject...average number of persons to be found in any given space. Nor will this appear at all surprising, when the character and habits of the people are taken... | |
 | Arthur Wilberforce Jose, Herbert James Carter, Thomas George Tucker - Australia - 1927 - 862 pages
...of the number of the aborigines. Eyre despairs of forming any opinion, even approximating the truth, of the aggregate population of the continent, or the...average number of persons to be found in any given space. A district, he says, that may at one time be thinly inhabited, or even altogether untenanted,... | |
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... and what impresses one in the writings of each and all of these observers is the extreme difficulty the authors encounter in arriving at even an approximation of the number of the aborigines. Eyre despairs of forming any opinion, even approximating... 