Advanced Geography . rA RELIEF MAP OF AUSTRALIA. NEW ZEALAND. 97 Y- ^MARSHALL AUSTRALIA KEYTO RELIEF MAP SCAIEJ>F_MIIES0 200 400 000 800 1000 The kangaroo is the best known of the pouched animals. Itoften grows to the size of a man. This animal has very stronghind legs and moves swiftly by leaping. Kangaroo skin is tannedand thus made into leather. This is used in the manufacture ofshoes, satchels and other articles. Lesson 105 describes some of the other curious animals ofAustralia. The natives of Australia belong to the black race. They are savages and live wretched lives. The total
Advanced Geography . rA RELIEF MAP OF AUSTRALIA. NEW ZEALAND. 97 Y- ^MARSHALL AUSTRALIA KEYTO RELIEF MAP SCAIEJ>F_MIIES0 200 400 000 800 1000 The kangaroo is the best known of the pouched animals. Itoften grows to the size of a man. This animal has very stronghind legs and moves swiftly by leaping. Kangaroo skin is tannedand thus made into leather. This is used in the manufacture ofshoes, satchels and other articles. Lesson 105 describes some of the other curious animals ofAustralia. The natives of Australia belong to the black race. They are savages and live wretched lives. The total number in all the tribes is only about thirty thousand. The fertile portions of thecontinent are inhabited bywhite people, mostly from theBritish Isles. The white menhave driven the savages fromv, these fertile lands. The pop-\ ~ ulation of Australia is onlyabout one twentieth as greatas that of ourown sheep,cattle, wheat nor corn are native to Aus-tralia, yet they now form the chief sourcesof wealth there. The continent is famousfor its gold mines, — mostly s
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