. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 384 AUSTRALASIA. progress of Christian civilisation. But after ten years of residence in this place of exile more than three-fourths of the natives had perished. Then pity was taken on them, and the twelve surviving men, twenty-two women, and ten children, nearly all half-breeds, were removed to a narrow promontory at Oyster Cove, near Hobart, and placed under some keepers, who enriched themselves at their expense. In 1860 the Tasmanian race was reduced to sixteen souls ; in 1869 the last man perished, and in 1876 " Queen " Truganina, po
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. 384 AUSTRALASIA. progress of Christian civilisation. But after ten years of residence in this place of exile more than three-fourths of the natives had perished. Then pity was taken on them, and the twelve surviving men, twenty-two women, and ten children, nearly all half-breeds, were removed to a narrow promontory at Oyster Cove, near Hobart, and placed under some keepers, who enriched themselves at their expense. In 1860 the Tasmanian race was reduced to sixteen souls ; in 1869 the last man perished, and in 1876 " Queen " Truganina, popularly known as Lalla Rookh, followed her people to the grave. But there still survived a few half-castes, and Fig. 162.—Lalla Rookh, the Last 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. 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 Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912. New York, D. Appleton and company
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