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Title: The countries of the world : being a popular description of the various continents, islands, rivers, seas, and peoples of the globe
Year: 1876 (1870s)
Authors: Brown, Robert, 1842-1895
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Publisher: London New York : Cassell, Petter, Galpin & co.
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, tried to atone for the crime of their ever having been born at all. In manycases the women were treated abominably, though it must be allowed rather better than theywere by their own tribesmen. They even liked their lives, and it is said proved faithful andaffectionate wives, though they were extremely jealous of a rival, a trait of character byno means common among the lower race of savages. For a quarter of a century therelived on Preservation Island, in Hanks Strait, old ^Munro, the King of the Sealers,
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<: 3 « o -J 150 THE COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD. who held sway over his wild neighbours in a most wonderful manner. They listened tohis eounsels and deferred to his judg-ment, awed by his wise look and dictionary words:though the Quakers, Messrs. Backhouse and Walker, who visited him, give no verypleasant picture of either the king or his three aboriginal queens. With a fewexceptions, these sealers were a drunken, lazy, lying, lawless set of vagabonds, ready tocommit any crime, and frequently guilty of most. The women, instead of becoming betterin their company, generally increased in depravity. When Robinson the Conciliatorwas engaged in collecting tlie aborigines whom the massacres of the settlers had spared,he forcibly took these women from the Strait islands, to go, with the rest of their people,to Flinders Island, where an asylum—afterwards removed to Oyster Cove—had been pro-vided for the remnant of the Tasmanian aboriginal race. There are still a few sealers inthe strait, th

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