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tasmania: breaking the immemorial monotony
…Inevitably, this forceful community, gradually spreading from its seashore settlements, came into contact with the elusive aborigines of the forest. It was known from the start that they existed. When Dutch sailor Abel Tasman arrived off the southeast coast in … Continue reading
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tasmania’s final solution
…Europeans often found them unattractive. Some of the young girls were pretty enough, but they soon faded. “Their forms were generally thin and withered,” wrote the Frenchman Francois Peron in 1807, “their breasts long and hanging; in a word, all … Continue reading
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