| 1839 - 366 pages
...THE INTERIOR was very extraordinary; for nothing in all the complicated adaptations we carried wiffi us either surprised or puzzled them. They are never...bullocks, although they had never before seen such auimals, nor white men, carts, weapons, dress, or any thing else we had. All were quite new to them,... | |
| William Pridden - Australia - 1843 - 406 pages
..." They are never awkward," says Major Mitchell, who was well qualified to speak from experience ; " on the contrary, in manners, and general intelligence,...renders them, in general, very agreeable companions." We may, therefore, if our inquiry be accompanied by humility and justice, be able to form a fair and... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1854 - 518 pages
...of those in the interior was very extraordinary, for nothing, in all the complicated adaptations Ve carried with us, either surprised or puzzled them....renders them in general very agreeable companions." (Vol. II. p. 334.) As to their temper, however, Mr. Mitchell considered it bad. He said that no kindness... | |
| Unitarianism - 1854 - 504 pages
...fear or policy. Mr. Mitchell says of them : " My experience enables me to speak in the most favorable terms of the aborigines, whose degraded position in...renders them in general very agreeable companions." (Vol. II. p. 334.) As to their temper, however, Mr. Mitchell considered it bad. He said that no kindness... | |
| Theology - 1854 - 516 pages
...terms of the aborigines, whose degraded position in J854.] Character and Habits of the Natives. 197 the midst of the white population affords no just...renders them in general very agreeable companions." (Vol. II. p. 334.) As to their temper, however, Mr. Mitchell considered it bad. He said that no kindness... | |
| Charles Staniland Wake - Ethics - 1878 - 528 pages
...relation to them — " The quickness of apprehension of those in the interior was very remarkable, for nothing in all the complicated adaptations we...language, and renders them in general very agreeable companions."8 Much the same testimony is borne by other travellers as to the intellectual characters... | |
| Robert Brough Smyth - Aboriginal Australians - 1878 - 572 pages
...with us either surprised or puzzled them. They are never awkward ; on the contrary, in manners and intelligence, they appear superior to any class of...renders them, in general, very agreeable companions." At Fort Bourke, a strange black who saw Mr. Larmer (one of Major Mitchell's party) fishing, gave him... | |
| Aboriginal Australians - 1878 - 572 pages
...with us either surprised or puzzled them. They are never awkward ; on the contrary, in manners and intelligence, they appear superior to any class of...renders them, in general, very agreeable companions." At Fort Bourke, a strange black who saw Mr. Larmer (one of Major Mitchell's party) fishing, gave him... | |
| James Demarr - Australia - 1893 - 418 pages
...experience respecting the natives, gained by long and varied intercourse with them. — Page 334. " My experience enables me to speak in the most favourable...renders them, in general, very agreeable companions." Thus far I have given the Major's observations about this ill-used race, whilst living ; I will now... | |
| George Burnett Barton - Australia - 1889 - 752 pages
...affords no just criterion of their merits. The quickness of apprehension of those in the interior is very extraordinary, for nothing in all the complicated...renders them, in general, very agreeable companions. " — Three Expeditions, 1838, vol. ii, p. 334. 1788-92 Eyre, the explorer, although no one had more... | |
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