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" There the old people that are not able to stir abroad by reason of their age, and the tender infants, wait their return; and what Providence has bestowed on them they presently broil on the coals and eat it in common. Sometimes they get as many fish as... "
Inventing Australia: Images and Identity, 1688-1980
by Richard White - 1981 - 216 pages
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Folklore, Volume 10

Joseph Jacobs, Alfred Trübner Nutt, Arthur Robinson Wright, William Crooke - Electronic journals - 1899 - 584 pages
...lands. I refer Mr. Hartland to what Dampier says : " Be it little or be it much they get, everyone has his part, as well the young and tender as the old and feeble, who are not able to go abroad." Compare Mr. Man on another very low race, the Andamanese : " Every care and consideration are paid...
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Myth, Ritual and Religion, Volume 1

Andrew Lang - Religion - 1899 - 388 pages
...little or be it much they get," says Dampier about the Australians in 1688, " every one has his part, &s well the young and tender as the old and feeble, who are not able to get abroad as the strong and lusty." This conduct reverses the cosmical process, and notoriously civilised...
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The Making of Religion

Andrew Lang - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1900 - 424 pages
...invalids on the head. But Dampier says, of the Australians, in 1G88, ' Be it little, or be it much they get, every one has his part, as well the young and tender, and the old and feeble, who are not able to go abroad, as the strong and lusty.' The origin of this...
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The World and Its Discovery: A Description of the Continents Outside Europe ...

Henry Buswell Wetherill - History - 1914 - 330 pages
...fish, should they come. In other places at low water they seek for cockles, mussels, and periwinkles. Sometimes they get as many fish as makes them a plentiful banquet, and at other times they get scarce every one a taste. When they have eaten they lie down till the next low water. There is...
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A Source Book of Australian History

History - 1919 - 236 pages
...presently broil on the coals, and eat in common. Sometimes they get as many fish as make them a splendid banquet; and at other times they scarce get every...every one has his part, as well the young and tender, and the old and feeble who are not ' able to go abroad, as the strong and lusty. How they get their...
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The Lutheran Church Review, Volume 21

Lutheran Church - 1902 - 676 pages
...MRRL. ii. 56. "Hervey Is. WRB. 34. code influences their conduct"; so that "Be it little or be it much they get, every one has his part as well the young and tender as the old and feeble." We add a few more running items on the influences of the gods on the men. Fitzroy says the Fuegian's...
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Exploration and Exchange: A South Seas Anthology, 1680-1900

Jonathan Lamb, Vanessa Smith, Nicholas Thomas - History - 2000 - 390 pages
...and what Providence has bestowed on them, they presently broil on the Coals, and eat it in common. Sometimes they get as many Fish as makes them a plentiful...every one has his part, as well the young and tender, the old and feeble, who are not able to go abroad, as the strong and lusty. When they have eaten they...
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1688: A Global History

John Elliot Wills - History - 2001 - 358 pages
...return, and what Providence has bestowed on them they presently broil on the coals and eat it in common. Sometimes they get as many fish as makes them a plentiful...every one has his part, as well the young and tender, the old and feeble, who are not able to go abroad, as the strong and lusty. When they have eaten they...
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Myth, Ritual & Religion, Volume 1

Andrew Lang - Social Science - 2005 - 389 pages
...much they get," says Dampier about the Australians in 1688, " every one has his part, as well tiie young and tender as the old and feeble, who are not able to get abroad as the strong and lusty." This conduct reverses the cosmical process, and notoriously civilised...
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1606: An Epic Adventure

Evan McHugh - Biography & Autobiography - 2006 - 266 pages
...return; and what providence has bestowed on them they presently broil on the coals and eat it in common. Sometimes they get as many fish as makes them a plentiful banquet; and at other times they scarce get everyone a taste: but be it little or much that they get, everyone has his part, as well the young...
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