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The family at the boulder

seeing an aborigine today is a difficult thing.

Many of them have drifted into the cities and towns and seaports.

Others are confined to vast reservations, and not only does the Australian government justifiably not wish them to be viewed as exhibits in a zoo, but on their reservations they are extremely fugitive, shunning camps, coming together only for corroborees at which their strange culture comes to its highest pitch -- which is very low indeed.