Soon after arriving in New South Wales in 1826, the naval officer Richard Sadleir was sent on a six-month inquiry into the state of the Aboriginal peoples, living partly among them to record numbers, languages and customs. Here he gathers what he learned, together with the history of missions, frontier violence and proposals for their protection.
A valuable colonial source on Aboriginal Australians, though its assumptions and language are those of the 1880s. Download the free EPUB.