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CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

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  2. List of Illustrations
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    viii
  3. Preface
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    ix
  4. Introduction
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    xiii


BOOK THE FIRST.

  1. Chapter I.
  2. Remarks on the Aboriginal Languages of Australia
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    3
  3. Chapter II.
  4. Remarks on some of the Words of the Vocabulary
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    27
  5. Chapter III.
  6. The Aborigines of Australia; their Manners and Customs
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    36
  7. Chapter IV.
  8. Marriage
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    106
  9. Chapter V.
  10. Weapons and Implements
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    143
  11. Chapter VI.
  12. Origin of the Australian Race
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    152
  13. Chapter VII.
  14. The place and period at which the forefathers of the Australian Race landed, and the routes by which their descendants spread themselves over the Continent
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    190
  15. Chapter VIII.
  16. Diseases and Decline of the Aboriginal Race
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    208
  17. Chapter IX.
  18. Remarks on some of the works which treat of the Aborigines of Australia
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    235