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Page 4
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 from
barbarism ...
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 from
barbarism ...
Page 168
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
...
Page 186
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 were
...
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 were
...
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| Title | A History of Australia, Volume 1 A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1963 |
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