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To be sure, America had been kinder to me than ever, and I was loath, in a way, to be leaving her and all the friends of mine she held old friends of years, and new ones made on that trip. But I was coming back. And then there was one great reason for my eagerness that few folk knew that my son John was coming to meet me in Australia. I was missing him sore already.
Bass and Flinders, in their tiny open boat, the Tom Thumb, and in the sloop Norfolk, dotting the blank map of Australia with the names of their discoveries it is not necessary surely to remind the reader that Bass began, and together the two men completed, the discovery and passage of the straits between Van Dieman's Land and the main continent.
"And the Chinese before any of us in Australia," replied Halbert. "If you will just come here," said Alice, "where those black rocks are hid by the bend of the hill, you get only three colours in your landscape; blue sky, grey grass, and purple sea. But look, there is a man standing on the promontory. He makes quite an eyesore there. I wish he would go away."
When morning broke, no land was in sight; but as the wind was from the westward, I judged that our safest plan was to steer to the northward, when we might either fall in with some ship, or make Java, or the western coast of Australia, should we not sight any island on the way. We had a small cask of water in the boat, and three empty casks, put there to be out of the way.
It is common, in Australia, to hear persons talk of the Colony as their adopted country, and so forth. No faith ought to be put in these declarations; nor do I believe there is a family in the Colony, who do not entertain some hope of once more seeing their native land.
We cannot expect to find traces of the prohibition to marry a woman of the same totem. In Rome we do find traces of exogamy, as among totemists. Mr. Frazer on Origin of Totemism Mr. Frazer has introduced the term 'sex-totems, in application to Australia. This is connected with his theory of the Origin of Totemism. I cannot quite approve of the term sex-totems.
In New Zealand, Australia and most American States, and even before the war in Finland and Norway, they had been given political rights; to-day, Sweden, Russia and many other countries give them a full or limited franchise. The war has brought a full victory to the women of England, Canada, Russia and Denmark, and large concessions are within sight in France, Holland and Hungary.
Indeed, the marsupial animals of Australia are of almost endless variety, ranging from a very tiny animal, no bigger than our field-mouse, to the great old-man kangaroo, which measures between seven and eight feet from the nose to the tip of the tail.
In New South Wales, one of the oldest and longest established missions in Australia was given up by the Rev. Mr. None have yet been induced permanently to adopt our customs, or completely to give up their wandering habits, or to settle down fixedly in one place, and by cultivating the ground, supply themselves with the comforts and luxuries of life.
Always harping on that one string. Was it nothing more than a lore of torturing some one that made him reiterate those words? Or did he wish to drive home more deeply the conviction that she was indeed dead? "Have you communicated the intelligence of her death to her trustee in Australia?" I asked. "No; why should I?" he said, "no good would come of it to me. Why should I trouble myself about it?"
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