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Description: Identifier: ridpathsuniversa08ridp (find matches)Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginningYear: 1897 (1890s)Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900Subjects: World historyPublisher: Cincinnati : JonesContributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library SystemDigitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan FoundationView Book Page: Book ViewerAbout This Book: Catalog EntryView All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.Text Appearing Before Image:Copyrighted b> The Jones Brothp-s Pun Co 893 Plate XIVText Appearing After Image:AUSTRALIAN FAMILY. A US TRA LI A NS.—ABORIGINA L BLA CKS. 701 of the Black races may have been, anddoubtless was, by land and not by water.True it is that the Australians andPapuans have not shown that measureof dread of the sea, that tearfulness ofadventure, which has marked theBlacks of Africa; but such is the char- acter of the Eastern Blacks, such theirweakness and degradation, that we mayassume both their inability and indispo-sition to have made their way by waterfrom their land connections in SouthernIndia to their foothold in Australia andthe Papuan islands. Chapter CXCI.-Aboriginal Australian Blacks.Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
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