x, 454 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits. ; 26 cm
Summary
John batman described as a "canny handler of 'the Aborigines'" and the concluding of the 'treaty' for 600 000 acres of Aboriginal land - p. 7. Some discussion of Kulin language, placenames and territories - p. 15. Validity of Batman's treaty - p. 15. Map of 'tribal and clan boundaries' circa 1835 - p. [14]. travelling, hunting and ceremonial practices - p. 15-16. "Natice women getting Yam bourn roots ... 1835" - p. 16. Aboriginal and settler views on each other, trading - p. 16-17. Sexual use of Aboriginal women - p. 18. Murder of Charles Franks and subsuquent retaliation by settlers - p. 18-19. Decimation of Aboriginal peoples by disease - p. 19. Description of encounter with Derrimut on p. 19 and drawing of Derrimut on p. 21
