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" The two fore-teeth of their upper jaw are wanting in all of them, men and women, old and young, whether they draw them out, I know not; neither have they any beards. "
A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in ... - Page 65
by John Pinkerton - 1812 - 17 pages
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A Source Book of Australian History

History - 1919 - 236 pages
...they hold up their heads, as if they were looking at somewhat over them. They have great bottle noses, pretty full lips, and wide mouths. The two fore-teeth...know not, neither have they any beards. They are long visaged, and of a very unpleasing aspect, having no one graceful feature in their faces. Their hair...
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Western Australia: A History from Its Discovery to the Inauguration of the ...

James Sykes Battye - Western Australia - 1924 - 496 pages
...they being so troublesome here that no fanning will keep them off. . . . They have great bottle noses, pretty full lips, and wide mouths. The two foreteeth...wanting in all of them, men and women, old and young. They are long-visaged. . . . Their hair is black, short, and curled. ' They have no sort of clothes,...
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A Story of the Australian People

Karl Reginald Cramp - Australia - 1927 - 276 pages
...out of their eyes They have great bottle noses. pretty full lips and wide mouths. The two fore teeth of their upper jaw are wanting in all of them, men and women, old and young They have no houses, but lie in the open air without any covering, the earth being their bed and the...
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Dispossession: Black Australians and white invaders

Henry Reynolds - History - 1996 - 244 pages
...They have great Bottle-Noses, pretty full Lips, and wide Mouths. The two Fore-teeth of their Upper-jaw are wanting in all of them. Men and Women, old and...I know not: Neither have they any Beards. They are long-visaged, and of a very unpleasing Aspect, having no one graceful Feature in their Faces. Their...
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The Explorers: Stories of Discovery and Adventure from the Australian Frontier

Tim Fridtjof Flannery - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 404 pages
...they hold up their heads as if they were looking at something over them. They have great bottle noses, pretty full lips and wide mouths. The two fore-teeth...I know not. Neither have they any beards. They are long-visaged, and of a very unpleasing aspect, having no one graceful feature in their faces. Their...
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Exploration and Exchange: A South Seas Anthology, 1680-1900

Jonathan Lamb, Vanessa Smith, Nicholas Thomas - History - 2000 - 394 pages
...They have great Bottle-Noses, pretty full Lips, and wide Mouths. The two Fore-teeth of their Upper-jaw are wanting in all of them, Men and Women, old and...I know not: Neither have they any Beards. They are long-visaged, and of a very unpleasing Aspect, having no one graceful Feature in their Faces. Their...
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1688: A Global History

John Elliot Wills - History - 2001 - 358 pages
...they hold up their heads, as if they were looking at somewhat over them. They have great bottle-noses, pretty full lips, and wide mouths. The two fore-teeth...I know not. Neither have they any beards. They are long-visaged, and of a very unpleasing aspect, having no one graceful feature in their faces. Their...
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Early Sociology of Religion, Volume 4

Turner B S Staff - Philosophy - 2004 - 390 pages
...commandments is imparted, the front teeth of the initiated are still knocked out. Now, Dampier observed ' the two fore-teeth of their upper jaw are wanting in all of them, men and women, old and young.' If this is to be taken quite literally, the Bora rite, in 1688, must have included the women, at least...
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1606: An Epic Adventure

Evan McHugh - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 266 pages
...troublesome here that no fanning will keep them out of their eyes . . . They have great bottle-noses, pretty full lips, and wide mouths. The two fore-teeth...them out I know not: neither have they any beards. He noted that they tended to live in companies of 20 or 30, and that their staple diet consisted of...
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Original Australians: Story of the Aboriginal people

Josephine Flood - History - 2006 - 345 pages
...have great ^ bottle noses, pretty full lips and wide mouths. The two fore-teeth of their upper-jaw " are wanting in all of them, men and women, old and young . . . Nor have they any beards . . . Their hair is black, short and curled like that of the Negroes,...
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