Note 1130 — IX THE REGULATION OF NUMBERS AMONG PRIMITIVE RACES
Reading edition
Curr, Australian Race, vol. i, p. 76. In another work, however, the same author says that he often spoke to the natives on this subject, and is ‘sure that the idea of over-population never entered their heads’ (Recollections, p. 263). Smyth (loc. cit., vol. i, p. 52) thinks that there may be some fear of over-population.