Lecture on the Aboriginees
of Australia
Permit me Mr Chairman, Ladies & Gentlemen,
to make a few preliminary ob-
servations in reference to the Abori-
ginees of Australia - the subject
I have promised to discuss, before
I proceed to the various particulars
which may deserve an inquiry respecting them.
And first I would [?] you,
lest you or some of you should
raise your expectations too high as
to the interesting information you might receive respecting them. A poor, widely and
thinly scattered race of wandering
unsettled and uncivilized habits as
are the Aborigines of this country can scarcely afford much of interest
either to be instructive as or to amuse or to satis-