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CHAPTER I. 
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W. Saville-Kent, Photo. 
GENE RAL AND INTRO D U CT 0 RY ABORIGINES OF KING’S SOUND, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, p. 9. 
W. Saville-Kent, Photo, 
‘< BROOME BELLES,’? NATIVE WOMEN OF ROEBUCK BAY, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, p. 14. 
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@i HERE is probably no 
: geographical region of 
the world that so justly 
commands the attention of the 
naturalist as Australasia. In 
nearly every department of zoo- 
logy and botany it yields forms 
and features represented, if at 
all, elsewhere on the surface of 
the globe, only by long extinct 
fossil types. 
From another standpoint, as 
a territorial unit, Australia is of 
surpassing interest, since, by the 
light of the most recent biological 
