| Description |
2 volumes ; 21 cm |
| Contents |
Includes: Dedicatory epistle to Charles Joseph La Trobe (p. v-vii) |
| Summary |
Describes author's journey from London to Victoria, in Volume I, and Valparaiso and Salem, New England in Volume II |
| Notes |
Appendix I is an excerpt of John Batman's journal describing his settlement in Port Phillip Bay |
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Chapter VI includes a description by a squatter near Mount Alexander, Victoria of massacres and poisoning of local Aboriginal people; author's note that such activities were widespread throughout Victoria and New South Wales |
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Chapter VII includes a description of a corroboree |
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Chapter VIII includes descriptions of Aboriginal housing, clothing, physique, food, weapons, language and knowledge of astronomy |
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Chapter XIX includes a description of William Buckley's life with Victorian Aboriginal people |
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Volume 1 also available online via the State Library of NSW at: http://digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?embedded=true&toolbar=false&dps_pid=IE4201895 |
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Volume 2 also available online via the State Library of NSW at: http://digital.sl.nsw.gov.au/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?embedded=true&toolbar=false&dps_pid=IE4222025 |
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No copyright restrictions apply |
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This work is out of copyright |
| SUBJECT |
Australia -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009579
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Australia -- Social life and customs. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114315
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| Author |
Latrobe, Charles Joseph, 1801-1875.
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| LC no. |
04024449 |
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