The Prehistoric Arts, Manufacturers, Works, Weapons, Etc., of the Aborigines of Australia
The Prehistoric Arts, Manufacturers, Works, Weapons, Etc., of the Aborigines of Australia
Thomas Worsnop
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That the arts of imitation and amusement should thus in any degree precede those of necessity seems an exception to the rules generally laid down for the progress of invention. It may, however, have been considered by the natives that the climate is never so severe as to make the provision of covering or shelter a matter of absolute necessity. Had these men been exposed to a colder atmosphere they would doubtless have had clothes and houses before they attempted to become sculptors. In a journa...l by John White, in the year 1788, he says : — " His Excellency Governor Phillip, attended by Lieutenant Ball of the navy. Lieutenant George Johnston of the marines, the Judge Advocate, John White, Esq., Surgeon- General to the settle- ment, three soldiers, and two seamen landed in Manly Cove, on the north side of the entrance into Port Jackson harbor, in order to trace to its source a river which had been discovered a few days before. " A mile or two to the northward at the end of this we fell in with a small saltwater lagoon, on which we found nine birds swimming that most perfectly resembled the rata avis of the Digitized by VjOOQ IC Digitized by VjOOQ IC Plate 21.
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