AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES. 



attainment, their penmanship especially being of unusual neatness and excel- 

 lence, and the accuracy with ■which verses are repeated being vei-y remarkable ; 

 but grammar and the higher branches of arithmetic are very puzzling to them. 

 In respect of discipline their conduct is excellent ; good order and steady applica- 

 tion to books is secured with ease, and for class or militaiy drill they show great 

 liking and aptitude. 



The inspection of the aboriginal school at Ramahyuck, in Gippsland, during 

 the last eleven years, gives a percentage of results higher than the other State 

 schools in Victoria ; and while, no doubt, this excellence is largely due to the 

 regularity with which the children attended school, and to the skill and zeal of 

 the gentlemen who taught them, it fairly shows that aboriginal children are at 

 least equal to others in power of learning those branches of education which are 

 taught in the State schools of Victoria. 



The reader will be interested to learn, that, on several occasions of examina- 

 tion by a Government inspector, the percentage of the Ramahyuck school was a 

 hundred — a result unparalleled hy any other school in the colony. 



THE END. 





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