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state, smoking tobacco and drinking ardent 

 spirits whenever they can be procured. In- 

 deed, it is well known, that among the chief 

 inducements for the native female to remain 

 with a European, are the rum and tobacco 

 with which she is supplied ad libitum. Can 

 we then wonder, if, after some years spent in 

 a manner which must militate against her 

 capabilities for procreating, more than her 

 previous rude mode of life, she returns to her 

 tribe with a broken constitution, and probably 

 past the usual term of life for conception (they 

 seldom bear children after thirty years of age) 

 to prove in such instances sterile?"* 



The same explanation is probably appli- 

 cable to the case of the other Aboriginal 

 races adverted to by Count Strzelecki ; and, 

 if it be the correct representation of facts, it 

 altogether destroys the force of any argument 

 which might be raised upon the infertility of 

 the native females after having borne children 

 to Europeans, in favour of the specific differ- 

 ence of the races.] 



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