Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, 1830-1840 - Page 84
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[Page 84]
I have therefore to the best of my humble ability, endeavored to preserve a memorial of the existence of a defunct people, and to have collected materials from for preserving perpetrating the manners, customs, and languages of the Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, so that all traces may not be lost forever.
[Transcriber's note : The following paragraph is struck through]
The vocabulary I here present to the reader public is not so complete as I would have wished, but at present it is the best that can be had. It is not improbable that some more dates may be obtained, and if so, I shall avail myself of every opportunity to promote facilitate publication. -
[Transcriber's note : the following margin paragraph is partly obscured by the fold of the document]
Those few that remain, and even [indecipherable] surviving and procreating, can never again become a people, but must merge into servants or dependents of the some one or other of the Southern Colonies.
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