“Outside Adelaide, Australia: "…they showed us some of the native aborigines at a wayside station in the great plain yesterday afternoon though they are the most revolting form of living creatures I've ever seen!! They are the lowest known form of human beings & are the nearest thing to monkeys I've ever seen"”

11 July 1920
Around the World with the Prince of Wales

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king of the United Kingdom and its dominions in 1936 1894–1972

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