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IN AUSTRALIAN WILDS 





ago it was a favourite camping ground of aborigines. 

 Tea-tree and other plants cover a large portion of the 

 land; but little time was spent in the scrub, the 

 object of our visit being to examine the sand dunes, 



ABORIGINES' BURIAL PLACE. 



and gather relics of the lost tribes. The wind had 

 scooped valleys among the great dunes, and disin- 

 terred the nameless dead. On the surface of the 

 white sand portions of human skeletons were scat- 

 tered, skulls, limb bones, vertebrae and ribs. It 

 looked as though some sacrilegious person had played 

 skittles with these poor relics of the men of old time. 

 Sun, wind and rain had rendered most of the remains 



