Item 04: 'Australian Aboriginal words and names collected by Robert Leycester Dawson', being rough galley proof from W.C. Penfold of items 2 and 3 with author's corrections, 27 September 1935 - Page 12

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reasonably humane race. Any more than the crimes, callous
cruelties, and tragedies which we read of every
day in the newspaper prove that our present day
civilization is uniformly callous and cruel. Happily we
are aware that it is not uniformly so.

Of the blacks I write from actual personal experience.
Whether about the homestead, in camp, in the bush, in
the cedar brushes, or on the road with cattle and horses,
I invariably found them faithful, helpful, and ever
anxious to please their employer. Provided of course
that they were treated fairly and justly.

Need one say more?

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