CHAPTER XXXVI

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THE AUSTRALIAN RACE.

Physical Conformation of the Australians--Their Low State of Civilisation--Their Superstitions--Their Wars--Singing and Dancing--The Corrobory--Division of the Nation into Great Families--Rules Regulating the property of Land and the Distribution of Food--Skill in Hunting the Kangaroo and the Opossum--Feasting on a Whale--Moral Qualities and Intelligence of the Australians 466

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