MORE ABOUT THE NATIVES 



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the same band coming back ; and, as soon as the houses 

 were left behind, off would come the shirts again, just 

 as the tight boots and high collar of the farmer boy are 

 taken off, 011 his return from a visit to his city cousins. 



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 THE AUSTRALIAN. 



The huts of the natives are probably the poorest 

 dwellings made by human beings ; they are inferior to 

 the homes of many wild beasts, and our musk-rats and 

 squirrels could teach them lessons in architecture. 

 They are generally nothing more than a few bushes 



