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Historians and anthropologists have written more of the aborigines ' intelligent
adaptation to their environment , and of the absence of suitable grain for crops or
of animals to domesticate as the reasons for their failure to advance from ...
Historians and anthropologists have written more of the aborigines ' intelligent
adaptation to their environment , and of the absence of suitable grain for crops or
of animals to domesticate as the reasons for their failure to advance from ...
Page 168
33 King was not the first to drift from the benevolence and goodwill which
informed the policy of amity and kindness to a belief in those innate and indelible
characteristics of the aborigines which neither contact with civilization nor the ...
33 King was not the first to drift from the benevolence and goodwill which
informed the policy of amity and kindness to a belief in those innate and indelible
characteristics of the aborigines which neither contact with civilization nor the ...
Page 186
Next day some officers and soldiers landed to gather wood , when they met the
aborigines , who appeared to be of average height , black in colour , both sexes
quite naked . The women carried their children on their backs , while the men
were ...
Next day some officers and soldiers landed to gather wood , when they met the
aborigines , who appeared to be of average height , black in colour , both sexes
quite naked . The women carried their children on their backs , while the men
were ...
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Contents
THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE PROTESTANTS | 23 |
THE SONS OF ENLIGHTENMENT | 41 |
THE CHOICE OF BOTANY | 61 |
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