Category: History - Other
Religion—Massacre of the crew of the “Maria”—Traditions—Cave Figures—Superstitions—Sorcery—Diseases—Poison revenge —Native songs—Wit and humour—Fidelity—Amusements—Corroborees —Weapons—Manufactures—The Bogan Tribes—Native Fruits—Dwellings 14
Religion—Massacre of the crew of the “Maria”—Traditions—Cave Figures—Superstitions—Sorcery—Diseases—Poison revenge —Native songs—Wit and humour—Fidelity—Amusements—Corroborees —...
3. CHAPTER III.First settlement of the Colony—Claims of the Aborigines—Extracts from Collins’s works—Bennillong and Cole-be—Dangerous proceedings of the Aborigines—Frightful massacre by the Bl...
4. CHAPTER IV.Efforts made to civilize the Aborigines—Rev. L. E. Threlkeld—Results of Missions—Government support of Missions—Society for propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts—Population in...
5. CHAPTER V.6. CHAPTER VI.Aboriginal Friends’ Association—Mission to Lake Alexandrina —Rev. Mr. Binney’s remarks—Extract from Mr. Foster—The Bishop of Adelaide’s visit to the Native Institution—Report of...
7. CHAPTER VII.8. CHAPTER IX.Shortly after my arrival in the Colony in 1826, I was appointed to a Commission of Inquiry into the state of the Aborigines. Previous to that, martial law had been proclaimed ab...
9. CHAPTER I.The origin of this race is difficult to trace; they seem to have no traditions, and, although the country abounds in gold, copper, and iron, they never appear to have reached th...
10. CHAPTER II.Religion—Massacre of the crew of the “Maria”—Traditions—Cave Figures —Superstitions—Sorcery—Diseases—Poison Revenge—Native Songs—Wit and Humour—Fidelity—Amusements—Corroborees—W...
11. CHAPTER III.First settlement of the Colony—Claims of the Aborigines—Extracts from Collins’s Works—Bennillong and Cole-be—Dangerous proceedings of the Aborigines—Frightful massacre by the Bl...
12. CHAPTER IV.Efforts made to civilize the Aborigines—Rev. L. E. Threlkeld—Results of Missions—Government support of Missions—Society for propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts—Population in...
13. CHAPTER V.Dr. Leichhardt visited the Moravian Mission in 1843, and said no better persons could be found than the seven families and twenty-one children to establish a colony; a little la...
14. CHAPTER VI.Aboriginal Friends’ Association—Mission to Lake Alexandrina —Rev. Mr. Binney’s remarks—Extract from Mr. Foster—The Bishop of Adelaide’s visit to the Native Institution—Report of...
15. CHAPTER VII.My acquaintance with His Majesty was very short. As was his usual habit, he visited the ship “Thames” in which I arrived in the Colony. His sable Majesty, in his native barge, a...
16. CHAPTER VIII.They landed at Rockingham Bay, thirteen in number. Jackey was a native of Patrick’s Plains, and proved himself intelligent, faithful, and trustworthy throughout this very disast...
17. CHAPTER IX.Tasman had discovered the island of Tasmania and given it the name of Van Diemen’s Land, after the Governor of Batavia, by whom he had been commissioned to explore the “Great So...