THE ABORIGINES OF NEW SOUTH WALES. 233 
our blackfellows are not the despicable savages that 
y are too often represented to be. They have or had virtues 
tlsert the sick and infirm ; their boys are compelled to content 
- tlemselves with meagre fare, and to bring the best of the food 
hands, § by the race of Ham, yet the task soon 
And first 
“thins US their social institutions there are traces 
18m Wout that we had a full record of what they really are 
_ “*Y pass away from among us ! 
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