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Page 250 - ... that your experience may enable you to suggest some general plan by which we may acquit ourselves of the obligations which we owe towards this helpless race of beings. I should not, without the most extreme reluctance, admit that nothing...
Page 250 - I cannot conclude this despatch without expressing my sense of the importance of the subject of it, and my hope that your experience may enable you to suggest some general plan by which we may acquit ourselves of the obligations which we owe towards this helpless race of beings.
Page 198 - ... of Brazil, from the profusion of the precious metal found on its surface. All the banks of the stream are furrowed out in a most extraordinary manner, so as to be altogether unaccountable to one unacquainted with the cause. The whole of the vegetable mould was washed away, and nothing remained but a red earth, cut into square channels, like troughs, with a narrow ridge interposed between them. Above was conducted a head stream of water, let down through these troughs, which were all on an inclined...
Page 250 - I cannot acquiesce in the theory that they are incapable of improvement, and that their extinction before the advance of the white settler is a necessity which it is impossible to control. I recommend them to your protection and favourable consideration with the greatest earnestness, but at the same time with perfect confidence : and I assure you that I shall be willing and anxious to co-operate with you in any arrangement for their civilization which may hold out a fair prospect of success.
Page 311 - Australian merchant, said the same thing from the colonies with greater eloquence a year later: The comparative facilities held out by the circumstances of this colony to the rising generation of the mother country must prove a cause of permanent attraction to many thousands of our countrymen, whose annual emigration to the southern hemisphere will tend, by the constantly sustained identity of national character, and freshness of national feeling, to retain by the strongest of bonds the connexion...
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| Title | What I Heard, Saw and Did at the Australian Gold Fields |
| Author | C. Rudston Read |
| Illustrated by | C. Rudston Read, W. L. Walton |
| Publisher | T. & W. Boone, 1853 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 12 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 327 pages |
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