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NOTES ON THE ABORIGINES OF NEW HOLLAND, : 169 ee 
and obscure, it is not easy to obtain information on. these. points 
without a great deal of premeditated questioning. These notes 
the scale of human nature, they are not without a very high sense 
of the supreme Godhead, and of a moral conception of what 1s 
belief. I do not think them capable of understanding such truths, 
or of being brought to believe in any other creed than in that 
Meaning mockeries of hymns and prayers of no lasting moral or 
religious value and effect. The natives of New Holland must, 1 
8 to be feared, continue in their ignorance ; and those ‘ood men 
who might wish to reclaim them to the Christian faith will, I 
Ope that if they obey the Divine laws of their God as given to 
Mm Sy his Son “ Grogoragally,” through “ Moodgeegally, their 
i. lawgiver, on Mount “ Dallambangel,” they will inherit eternal 
iftheir women rejoiced in the same belief, and were not kept under 
Such stran: 
; ge, debasing, and superstitious ignorance. IT must ’ 
Palpable to any one who has seats much of the natives of 4 coun- 
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ment of the men, by producing on their savage seagate 
the titio we and reverence towards their ideal God and 
God h 
