Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-west and Western Australia, During the Years 1837, 38, and 39, Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government: Describing Many Newly Discovered, Important, and Fertile Districts, with Observations on the Moral and Physical Condition of the Aboriginal Inhabitants, &c., &c. London, T. and W. Boone, 1841, Volume 2Libraries Board of South Australia, 1964 - Australia |
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Page 201
... amongst the mass are noble minds , who have a perception of the true object of their calling , who feel a just and laudable pride that they are the employers and benefactors of mankind ; whose names , even amongst distant hordes of ...
... amongst the mass are noble minds , who have a perception of the true object of their calling , who feel a just and laudable pride that they are the employers and benefactors of mankind ; whose names , even amongst distant hordes of ...
Page 230
... amongst themselves , giving their daughters to one another , and the more female children they have , the greater chance have they of getting another wife , by this sort of exchange ; but the women have generally some favourite amongst ...
... amongst themselves , giving their daughters to one another , and the more female children they have , the greater chance have they of getting another wife , by this sort of exchange ; but the women have generally some favourite amongst ...
Page 251
... amongst the natives ; in two cases I , however , observed persons of very deficient intellect . Mad people are unknown , and this very naturally , for very few freaks of madness could be committed by a lunatic ere he would fall a ...
... amongst the natives ; in two cases I , however , observed persons of very deficient intellect . Mad people are unknown , and this very naturally , for very few freaks of madness could be committed by a lunatic ere he would fall a ...
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