. The science of railways . Rural life in Persia. ue CARRIAGE m >o a <D St ao PRIMITIVE CARRIAGE IN AUSTRALASIA. The widely separated islands constituting Aus-tralasia form a part of what is known as Ocean-ica. The aborigines were savage blacks. Becauseof their dark skin the territory has sometimesbeen called Melanesia. It comprises the islandsbetween Malasia and Polyne-sia—namely, Australia, NewZealand, New Guinea, the Fijis,New Britain, Tasmania, discovered by whitemen no progress toward civili-zation had been made by theaborigines. The desire to pos-sess property, th
. The science of railways . Rural life in Persia. ue CARRIAGE m >o a <D St ao PRIMITIVE CARRIAGE IN AUSTRALASIA. The widely separated islands constituting Aus-tralasia form a part of what is known as Ocean-ica. The aborigines were savage blacks. Becauseof their dark skin the territory has sometimesbeen called Melanesia. It comprises the islandsbetween Malasia and Polyne-sia—namely, Australia, NewZealand, New Guinea, the Fijis,New Britain, Tasmania, discovered by whitemen no progress toward civili-zation had been made by theaborigines. The desire to pos-sess property, the first indica-tion of enlightenment—thecracking of the shell of sav-agery^—they lacked. Theywere not familiar with agri-culture, and the dog was theonly domestic animal theypossessed. They had in general no settled dwell-ings but lived in hovels. Their water craft wererude rafts or dug-outs, canoes hollowed out oflogs; those intended for war purposes, however,were frequently of enormous size, in some in-stances being ninety feet long and carrying one (347) KALE
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