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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 272, 7 March 1877, Page 3

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Tiie tendeney j i; ip:r,' tit.ien.tcd to. revert to the r-vl-'fui! ty[v. rather than to fk:v;(r.r t!ee"'r tMlows. i- iin in the following exuuples : A voutt- Uotoeudo boy wns brought up by a" IU-:.i;%iiari lmi\ly at i'ahi. f:ttended the -e'.io.its and tae nnrversiry. ».>'otained a medical dljilo-utfi. and for a Etnte practised ;.<■•. a phvsie'.an ar tVi-.ht. rtv>b<t:»d melanvlmly had fdways been the ehitf feature of iiis e a>\.ief-er. 'n\ • day he disappeared, and \ ears aft., rv ;irds hts adopted parent received iute! l-erre t' at h- had disearded clotaes ;uid tduee.f'on, :ind was io;mut " ahour. th.e f >•,.>:.-,?.> with his tribe. A similar ease v. as witness-d by Dobiir.tioft'. r auioti ; the Ahiportes : and he also \vhues the sivvy of a Spairhet lady who. wit i her chddrrn, feit into the hands of t!ds n-.'vrlike tri l e, atel remaiued wit t them, uiil.l a rau-0.-u u;y, iler sen Uiiymoud and her dan-h:c-r. who had :;t iniii "up iuhi'T! the redskins entirely, i-> fus.-d to v\ turu.

'l'he lat.- A.lmirat Fit-oy brought a to llrrdf.nrt, tvhtr-'.' tie was tdu-i vtm d aed htvu-id up under rhe ~,!,,,. ~f .f miuy ladtoii. and was for a time maoe tnue'i of as a p;t m good i-oeiety. He r,-i-is teheu iiac!; to his native tiouutrv bvfche t rvpedition ; t« which Charles !)arwiu w'\ at r-tuet the world. On his return to his own houte. Jemmy Button, vdio- iu Ftuvpe had always worn -b>vi.s and polislietl Fioots at once became a naked, unwashed, unkt-mpt as he had formerly been, and tn no tonu'tr dirt-, rul from his t'elh.tvs. hydro„;repher iX« tfuiayt raiso relates t!;-.t. havine; i.i.* way on the Lower Murvav in" t: -til, he was taken i>y tiie uaHvts to a naked biaek man. who noted in his poek-tho-k, in fau'ti "less English, the names oj the tued imp-riiant JoeaUUtS t.hrou-'-h which, h.e was Jo pa:;-i on hi:; return. ° This titeiary Anstraltait. who was ■r tied time 2-i '■('■»'? of a-;'e. had been edueat'd ia Adelahie.