. The earth and its inhabitants .. . in 1884 a so-called " Tasmanian " woman obtained a grant of land from the colonial parliament. On the AustraKan mainland, also, most of the coast tribes have disappeared. Of the one thousand five hundred natives occupying the Botany Bay district in 1788 not a single descendant can be found, and in the settled districts where a few of the aborigines still linger, all tribal grouping has been effaced. At the census of 1881 the total number in the colonised territory was estimated at some thirty thousand. Since then there has been an apparent increas
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . in 1884 a so-called " Tasmanian " woman obtained a grant of land from the colonial parliament. On the AustraKan mainland, also, most of the coast tribes have disappeared. Of the one thousand five hundred natives occupying the Botany Bay district in 1788 not a single descendant can be found, and in the settled districts where a few of the aborigines still linger, all tribal grouping has been effaced. At the census of 1881 the total number in the colonised territory was estimated at some thirty thousand. Since then there has been an apparent increase in some of the colonies, which is explained by the fact that the frontiers have been enlarged so as to include a few hundred tribes till recently independent, and consequently not included in the earlier returns. Nevertheless, some recent statistics seem to show
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