B 505: Lecture on the Aborigines of Australia and papers on Wirradhurrei dialect, 1837-1840 - Page 8
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entirely from my own resources as I
am not aware of much that may have has
been written or said, about the Abori-
ginees from which I could derive,
much advantage, even if I had it
to refer to. And as I have made the
Blacks for more than [six?] years the main
objects of my attention & study, I
fancy I do not presume too much if
I express chiefly my own opinion & the results
of my experience. You will therefore
bear with me, if my own name
and personal efforts are now and then al-
most unavoidably mixed up with my
statements.
F
And now I shall now proceed to make a
few remarks as to the various questions
which may naturally rise in our minds:
When & how these wild sons of original
inhabitants came to this country, when
they came and with [to?] what a other races
they seem to be more nearly related,
bear a resemblance