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Text Appearing Before Image: Copyrighted b> The Jones Brothp-s Pun Co 893 Plate XIV Text Appearing After Image: AUSTRALIAN FAMILY. A US TRA LI A NS.—ABORIGINA L BLA CKS. 701 of the Black races may have been, anddoubtless was, by land and not by water.True it is that the Australians andPapuans have not shown that measureof dread of the sea, that tearfulness ofadventure, which has marked theBlacks of Africa; but such is the char- acter of the Eastern Blacks, such theirweakness and degradation, that we mayassume both their inability and indispo-sition to have made their way by waterfrom their land connections in SouthernIndia to their foothold in Australia andthe Papuan islands. Chapter CXCI.-Aboriginal Australian Blacks.
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