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Robert
Brough-Smyth, 2 February 1870
'The children have improved in appearance, and many of them acquitted
themselves very well in reading. Their copy-books were clean, and
the writing of many of them is quite as good as would be found in
the Common Schools. Some of the children's pencil sketches surprised
me, and I advised Mr Johnston to give encouragement to such of the
boys as showed a desire to acquire instruction in landscape drawing'8.
Robert
Brough-Smyth, 2 February 1870
'I was glad to see that the women are careful of their children,
and many are very proud of them. One showed me a black infant about
three weeks old, arrayed apparently in the same garments as the
Europeans use, and the clothes were as white as snow'11.
John
Green, 1871
'The children have not made so much progress in their learning as
I should have liked, except in singing; in this they have made good
progress'9.
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8 Board for
the Protection of Aborigines, 7th Report, 1871, p. 8.
9 Board for the Protection of Aborigines, 7th Report, 1871, p. 14.
11 Board for the Protection of Aborigines, 7th Report, 1871, p. 9.
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