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Lieutenant Jeffries, who Mr Evans quotes, seems to have scrutinized the female offspring of Europeans and the Black women with the eyes and the taste of a connoisseur, His language and description are commensurate with the alleged charms of the
Lieutenant Jeffries, whom Mr Evans quotes, seems to have scrutinized the female offspring of Europeans and the black women with the eye of a British sailor. His rapturous language and glowing description are commensurate with the charms he adores. I have seen several of these half bred females, but could never discover in them that perfection of beauty which the worthy seaman so feelingly delineates ascribes to his Venus di Medicis. Nevertheless, by all accounts, Dolly Dalrymple was really a handsome girl, and is now a good looking woman.
I intended to have closed my narrative of the Aborigines as above before remarked, but so many anecdotes had having have come within the reach of my knowledge, highly interesting, that had I penned them all down, it would have swelled my work to any inconvenient length, far beyond my prescribed limits, but as Mr Evans has mentioned the woman Bong who so heroically rescued her child from the fire, and Dolly Dalrymple, her daughter, it will not, I am sure, tire the patience of my readers to give a history of their future progress in life. Bong subsequently accompanied the conciliatory mission, and rendered good service