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CONTENTS.

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CHAPTER X.
THE SEALERS.
Home life of Sealers' Women295
Robinson removes the Women to Flinders300
The Qnakers and the Sealers305
CHAPTER XI.
HALF-CASTES.
Murder of Half-castes311
Fecundity of Mixed Races318
Bishop Nixon's Visit to the Straits' Half-castes317
Bong and her Daughter Dolly321
CHAPTER XII.
NATIVE RIGHTS.
Legal Rights327
Hanging of Four Tasmanians331
CHAPTER XIII.
CIVILIZATION.
Whately's Degradation Theory385
Effects of Civilization348
Drink and Civilization347
Walter, the civilized Tasmanian352
An Aboriginal Discourse354
Mr. Wedge's Black Boy355
Failure of Australian Missions365
Christian Tasmanians367
CHAPTER XIV.
DECLINE.
Amalgamation of Races378
Decline, a "Decree of Providence"375
Hawaiian and Maori Decline379
Drink, the great Destroyer381
Story of the civilized Mathinna388
Count Strzelecki's Theory of Decline387
Lanné, the Last Man398
Lalla Rookh, the Last Tasmanian399
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