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Page 78
... mate , is regarded as infamous . On the other hand ... [ they are not ] very scrupulous on the subject of honesty , if ... mates , will make for one another , beyond people of the old countries . I suppose want prevailing less in the new ...
... mate , is regarded as infamous . On the other hand ... [ they are not ] very scrupulous on the subject of honesty , if ... mates , will make for one another , beyond people of the old countries . I suppose want prevailing less in the new ...
Page 93
... mate , or a number of mates , of his own sex . And probably , for the majority of men , the quite unconscious sublimation would not have occurred if there had been no gins and no Mrs Johnstons . On the conscious level bushmen naturally ...
... mate , or a number of mates , of his own sex . And probably , for the majority of men , the quite unconscious sublimation would not have occurred if there had been no gins and no Mrs Johnstons . On the conscious level bushmen naturally ...
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... mates in all circumstances , and the greatest evil is to desert them . Sam Holt's sin is not , primarily , that he was a thief and a cheat.42 We have seen that all honest bushmen , more or less , were cattle- duffers and sheep ...
... mates in all circumstances , and the greatest evil is to desert them . Sam Holt's sin is not , primarily , that he was a thief and a cheat.42 We have seen that all honest bushmen , more or less , were cattle- duffers and sheep ...
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THE LEGEND AND THE TASK | 1 |
THE FOUNDING FATHERS | 14 |
CELTS AND CURRENCY | 43 |
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