. The history of mankind . gions, and name the winds from them. In thewest the year is divided into six seasons ; their capacity for taking their bearingsis extraordinary, their knowledge of locality is so great that at the distance of adays journey they can accurately describe the direction in which a point lies,and no less accurate is their recollection of localities which they have once these practical acquirements, the intellectual life of the Australians hasvery little to show. Taplin took some trouble to collect the traditions currentamong the Narrinyeri, which gives a no
. The history of mankind . gions, and name the winds from them. In thewest the year is divided into six seasons ; their capacity for taking their bearingsis extraordinary, their knowledge of locality is so great that at the distance of adays journey they can accurately describe the direction in which a point lies,and no less accurate is their recollection of localities which they have once these practical acquirements, the intellectual life of the Australians hasvery little to show. Taplin took some trouble to collect the traditions currentamong the Narrinyeri, which gives a notion of the vacuity of their minds. Thistribe supposes itself, before it came to its present situation, to have wandereddown the Murray and the Darling, and has some recollection of a devastatingsickness which, before the arrival of the Europeans, came in the same remember the terror which Sturt inspired in them when he crossed theAlexandra lake in his boat ; and the confusion which two oxen, who had strayed.
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