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The outrages by the aborigines continued . Near Grafton on 13 August 1853 a party of blacks entered a shepherd's hut and dragged a white woman outside . While two threatened her with nulla - nullas , a third used ' the poor helpless ...
The outrages by the aborigines continued . Near Grafton on 13 August 1853 a party of blacks entered a shepherd's hut and dragged a white woman outside . While two threatened her with nulla - nullas , a third used ' the poor helpless ...
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The white man was convinced that the nearer the aborigines approached their civilization the more quickly they waned and perished while the white men tried to humanize them . The plain fact was that the ' rough angularities ' of the ...
The white man was convinced that the nearer the aborigines approached their civilization the more quickly they waned and perished while the white men tried to humanize them . The plain fact was that the ' rough angularities ' of the ...
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There the white settlers , unrestrained by any idea of the aborigine as being made in the image of God were slaughtering ... When the aborigines continued to display hostility after this first act of pacification , and repeated what the ...
There the white settlers , unrestrained by any idea of the aborigine as being made in the image of God were slaughtering ... When the aborigines continued to display hostility after this first act of pacification , and repeated what the ...
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THE POSSESSED | 5 |
ONE STEP FORWARD FOR THE WHITE MAN | 23 |
WHO WOULD WANT TO BE A DIGGER? | 45 |
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