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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 ...
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 ...
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Atkins was not prepared to admit aborigines as witnesses in the law courts of New South Wales , because the evidence of persons not bound by any moral or religious tie could never be considered as legal evidence , and because to admit ...
Atkins was not prepared to admit aborigines as witnesses in the law courts of New South Wales , because the evidence of persons not bound by any moral or religious tie could never be considered as legal evidence , and because to admit ...
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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 ...
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 ...
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Contents
THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE PROTESTANTS | 21 |
THE SONS OF ENLIGHTENMENT | 42 |
THE CHOICE OF BOTANY BAY | 59 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A History of Australia, Volume 1 A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1962 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 18 Feb 2009 |
| Length | 16 pages |
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