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Excerpt from The Land of the Dawning: Being Facts Gleaned From Cannibals in the Australian Stone Age IN dedicating this strange book to you, I feel sure you will be able to realize the peculiar work that I was expected to do in a wild region. At first I placed a firm reliance in my black trackers, but, alas! I trusted to a rotten corps, one member of which had made up his mind to shoot me. Ydu, being a practical bushman, and accustomed to the ways and devices of flash civi lized blackboys, will soon take in the situation at a glance. Many other bushmen, on reading this, will remark, Ah we all pretty well know why We carry revolvers on our belts - not only for wild niggers. You no doubt remember the weary, anxious time I spent on the Victoria, when there were seven civilized blacks at large in the ranges with firearms, and not one of them had any love for me, and had I overstepped the limits of prudence on that occasion I would have been shot from behind their 'hiding places. You remember the dark figures stealing stealthily around us, and when they were unpleasantly close the worthless vaga bonds had cause to bowl and shriek in the silent majesty of the night. I was prompted to select you for this Dedication as you thoroughly understand the scheming designs of aborigines who plot and contrive to take the heart's blood of white men. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com 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.