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Excerpt from The Aborigines of New South Wales <p>It will not be necessary, at this point, to say more about the origin of the Australian black man; I now proceed to examine him in his native environ ment, as he grows up from birth to manhood, and thence from manhood to old age. <p>If the limits assigned to this pamphlet had permitted, additional sections could have been introduced, treating of the 'karaji' or medicine-man, spirit world, mythology, the physical features of the natives, their moral and intellectual qualities, their cave-paintings and other specimens of art, their language, as well as the probable origin and migrations of the Australian race. But, as it is, many of my facts and arguments are here produced for the first time and the same facts are sometimes referred to in two or more sections, for they belong to each. <p>About the Publisher <p>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com <p>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.