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The story of a young Aboriginal girl who is adopted by a soldier, Brown, who was the white officer in charge of the squad of (exclusively Aboriginal) soldiers that massacred her entire family in front of her and intended to kill her with them, had Brown not stepped forward to adopt her. Brown intends to raise her immersed in British culture, and has her educated as a doctor, but on his death, she returns to live with her people.
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Users are warned that this work contains terminology that reflects attitudes or language used at the time of publication that are considered inappropriate today, particularly as regards the narrator's stance towards Aboriginal Australians.
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