Their origin - probable period of their arrival -- Causes which led to their dispersion - causes of degeneracy - superiority of northern Aboriginals - numerical force of tribes - system of chiefship - customs -- Ideas of a supreme being - Belief in a future state - Idolatry unknown -- Germs of artistic skill -- Faculty of observation - Intuition - Stoicism - Rites of sepulture and reverence for the dead -- Language - Music - Mode of warfare - Hunting - Hunting grounds - Mode of punishment -- Ceremony of initiation - Half-caste children - Belief in spirits - A new species of food - Corroboree - The "Kradga Kibba" -- General councils - Mourning - Ornamented opossum cloaks - Ferry-boats - Juvenile exercises - Culinary process -- Belief in the metempsychosis - Aboriginal women - Powers of mimicry - A "barbarous" practice - Tattooing - Modes of fishing - Lex talonis -- Armoury - Utensils -- Funeral notes - Sponsorial custom - Juvenile spirits - Personal bravery - "Striking a light" - The bough of peace -- Misgivings - Tribes of Botany Bay and Port Jackson - Manly Cove and Rushcutter's Bay -- Confidence and caution - Capture and escape of Binnelong and Cole-be - Subsequent history of Binnelong -- Hospitality and resentment - Primitive art - Amputation of the little finger - Sorcery -- The "rising" of 1842-4 -- The Myall Creek massacre -- The Coo-ee - numbers of the Aboriginals
Analysis
Ethnology Australia
Notes
Facsimile of 1888 edition published: Sydney : Flanagan & Robertson
