Physical description
191p.; vocab. list;
Summary
The author arrived in Victoria at the age of 10 years in 1839. His family gave their name to the Victorian town. He and his brother settled at 'Tyntynder' outside Swan Hill in 1845. His brother was killed by Aborigines. Brought into daily contact with the Aborigines of the area he gradually acquired their language and was permitted to learn much denied to other whites. By 1883 he had amassed a large amount of information which he put into the form of a Paper, read before the Royal Society of New South Wales. This paper may be regarded as the skeleton of the volume now publishjed.
Victoria -- Riverina Aboriginals, Victoria -Swan Hill region. Lifestyle; customs and beliefs. Tyntynder(Vic) Aboriginals - Murray River tribes; language; magic; religion and practices.
