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CHAP. PAGE INTRODUCTORY LETTER 7
PAGE HUNTING PARROTS AND COCKATOOS 12
ABORIGINAL CHILDREN AND NATIVE HUT 28
LEARNING TO USE THE BOOMERANG 42
YOUTH IN WAR PAINT 52
GIRLS' CLASS AT YARRABAH SCHOOL 73
BATHING OFF JETTY AT YARRABAH 78
THE FIRST SCHOOL AT MITCHELL RIVER 84
CHILDREN OF WILD AUSTRALIA
INTRODUCTORY
This little book is all about the children of wild Australia--where they came from, how they live, the weapons they fight with, their strange ideas and peculiar customs. But first of all you ought to know something of the country in which they live, whence and how they first came to it, and what we mean by "wild Australia" to-day, for it is not all "wild"--very, very far from that.
Australia is a very big country, nearly as large again as India, and no less than sixty times the size of England without Wales. Nearly half of it lies within the tropics so that in summer it is extremely hot. There are fewer white people than there are in London, in fact less than five millions in all and more than a third of these live in the five big cities which you will find around the coast, and about a third more in smaller towns not so very far from the sea. The further you travel from the coast the more scattered does the white population become, till some hundred miles inland or more you reach the sheep and cattle country where the homes of the white men are twenty or even more miles apart. Further back still lies a vast, and, as far as whites are concerned, almost unpeopled region into which, however, the squatter is constantly pushing in search of new pastures for his flocks and herds, and into which the prospector goes further and further on the look-out for gold. This country we call in Australia "the Never-Never Land," and it is this which is wild Australia to-day. It lies mostly in the North and runs right up to the great central desert. It is there that the aboriginals, or black people, are found. The actual number of these black people cannot be exactly ascertained, but there are probably not more than 100,000 of them left to-day.
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