AVAUNT! YE TEARS. [Pg 49] [Pg 49] THE LAST OF THE TASMANIANS. CONTENTS Tasmania, a large, beautiful island to the southeast of Australia, when discovered by Van Dieman, was peopled with a magnificent race of savages, resembling somewhat the American Indian. Civilization, with its attendant advantages and evils, proved too much for the primitive child of the forest. The last Tasmanian, a woman, died in 1885, and the once splendid race is now extinct. Prologue. Prologue. Apostrophe. Apostrophe. [Pg 50] [Pg 51] [Pg 51] AN ENGLISH LANE. WORDS TO MENDELSSOHN’S “CONSOLATION.” [Pg 52] [Pg 52] A MAIDEN OF TE PITO TE HENUA, AN ISLAND IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC. [Pg 53] [Pg 53]
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