MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE ABORIGINES OF AUSTRALIA.

CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY REMARKS—­UNJUST OPINIONS GENERALLY ENTERTAINED OF THE CHARACTER OF THE NATIVE—­DIFFICULTIES AND DISADVANTAGES HE LABOURS UNDER IN HIS RELATIONS WITH EUROPEANS—­AGGRESSIONS AND INJURIES ON THE PART OF THE LATTER IN GREAT DEGREE EXTENUATE HIS CRIMES

Chapter ii. 
Physical appearance—­dress&md
ash;­character—­habits of life—­meetings of
tribes—­wars—­dances >—­songs

Chapter III. 
Food—­how procured—­how prepared—­limitation as to age, etc.

Chapter IV. 
Property in
land—­dwellings—­weapon
s—­implements—­government—­customs—­social
relations—­marriage—­no
menclature

Chapter V.
Ceremonies and superstitions—­forms of burial—­mourning
customs—­religious ideas—­EMPIRICS, etc.

Chapter vi. 
Numbers—­diseases—­cause of limited population—­crimes against
Europeans—­amongst themselves—­treatment of each other in distribution of
food, etc.

Chapter VII. 
Language, dialects, customs, etc.—­general similarity throughout the
continent—­causes of differences—­route by which the natives have
overspread the country, etc.

Chapter VIII. 
Effects of contact with Europeans—­attempts at improvement and
civilization—­account of schools—­defects of the system

Chapter IX. 
Suggestions for improvement of system adopted towards the natives

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EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES OF NATIVE ORNAMENTS, WEAPONS, IMPLEMENTS, AND WORKS OF INDUSTRY

LIST OF PLATES.—­VOL.  II.

Distribution of flour at Moorunde, G. Hamilton
Arrival at King George’s Sound, J. Neill
Plate I.—­Native Ornaments
Kangaroo Dance of King George’s Sound, J. Neill
Woodcut of a Standard used in the Dances performed by day
Plate ii.  Native Weapons
Plate III.  Native Weapons
Plate IV.  Native Implements
Plate V. Native Works of Industry
Mode of disposing of the Dead of the Lower Murray