Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, 1830-1840 - Page 71
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I ha Independent of what I collected of Mr Jorgenson's Reports, found in the public Archives of the Colony he has favored me with a mass of papers and journals which were kept and preserved by him.
Alexander McKay's journal of the proceedings of the conciliatory mission presents merely an account of the movements of different parties.
Alexander McGeary also kept a journal, which although the production of one who is little conversant with literature, or even common learning, is still highly interesting. McGeary is evidently a keen observer of human manners, and he paid great attention to the Aboriginal languages. It would be unjust towards him not to mention that some years since a "Dr Lhotsky", a German or a Poleish adventurer arrived in the colony, who at first was supposed to have been possessed of some literary acquirements, until it was afterwards
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