Note 204 — Chapter II · GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF SLAVERY.
Reading edition
As little mention is made of slaves by those ethnographers who speak of the Australians in general204. According to Brough Smyth, “each of the principal men and priests seeks for his food, and ministers to his own wants (with such help as he gets from his wives); and has no one whom he can call servant”205. Gerland states that the Australians make no captives, except women sometimes206.