RECORD ID

3878

FIGURE

Spirit

NARRATIVE

Spirit-Person Narratives

PRINTED LABEL

spirit

PUBLICATION

The Aborigines of Tasmania; H. Ling Roth, Marion E. Butler, James Backhouse Walker, J. G. Garson, E. B. Tylor

AUTHOR

Not specified

ing adls of kindness, and against whom they had up to that moment suffered no indication of hostility to betray itself. . . . These adts of violence on the part of the natives are generally to be regarded, not as retaliating for any wrongs which they conceived themselves coUedlively or individually to have endured, but as proceeding from a wanton and savage spirit inherent in them, and impelling them to mischief and cruelty when it appeared probable that they might be perpetrated with impunity " (Rep. Aborig. Com. pp. 36, 38). ** Natives in V. D. Land are not so brave as those in N. S. Wales ; they are more cruel and treacherous..

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1. 01spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
2. 02spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
3. 03spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
4. 04spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia1842 · Internet Archive
5. 05spirit in How did the Natives of Australia become Acquainted with the Demigods and Daemonia, and with the Superstitions of the Ancient Races?1854 · Internet Archive
6. 06spirit in How did the Natives of Australia become Acquainted with the Demigods and Daemonia, and with the Superstitions of the Ancient Races?1854 · Internet Archive