Children of Wild Australia
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About This Book
Excerpt from Children of Wild AustraliaAll the time I have been writing this little book I have been wishing I could gather you all around me and take you with me to some of the places in far away Australia where I myself have seen the little black children at their play. You would understand so much better all I have tried to say.It is a bright sunny land where those children live, but in many ways a far less pleasant land to live in than our own. The country often grows very parched and bare, the grass dies, the rivers begin to dry up, and the poor little children of the wilderness have grea...
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- CHILDREN OF WILD AUSTRALIA
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
- CHAPTER II PICCANINNIES
- CHAPTER III "GREAT-GREAT-GREATEST-GRANDFATHER!"[1]
- FOOTNOTE:
- CHAPTER IV BLACKFELLOWS' "HOMES"
- CHAPTER V EDUCATION
- CHAPTER VI WEAPONS, ETC., WHICH CHILDREN LEARN TO MAKE AND USE
- CHAPTER VII HOW FOOD IS CAUGHT AND COOKED
- CHAPTER VIII CORROBBOREES, OR NATIVE DANCES
- CHAPTER IX MAGIC AND SORCERY
- CHAPTER X SOME STRANGE WAYS OF DISPOSING OF THE DEAD
- CHAPTER XI SOME STORIES WHICH ARE TOLD TO CHILDREN
- CHAPTER XII MORE STORIES TOLD TO CHILDREN
- CHAPTER XIII RELIGION
- CHAPTER XIV YARRABAH
- CHAPTER XV TRUBANAMAN CREEK
- CHAPTER XVI SOME ABORIGINAL SAINTS AND HEROES
- CHAPTER XVII THE CHOCOLATE BOX
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