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Excerpt from My Life of Exploration
The coast range not far away, at an elevation of four thousand feet, seemed always to beckon to me so invitingly; there ought to be rare, probably new, species of animal life in the dense jungle of that lonely range. But how to get there when the blacks of that region were reputed to be bad? After a while I decided on a bold undertaking, to camp and travel with these aborigines alone. I felt that surely they would help me to find animals hitherto unknown to science. As far as I know, no white man has ever attempted to camp alone with the wild natives of Australia; the first warning the colonists give you is.
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