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SEMON'S RESEARCHES IN AUSTRALIA.
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ing bout, an account was henceforth kept, and the cash system abolished. After the lapse of nearly three months the natives grew

A Marea (Bachelors' Home) in Pinupaka.

tired of this regular employment, as they invariably do, and the whole "mob" suddenly quit work, received their wages and special awards, and went back very cheerfully to the primitive vagrant life