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FL661338

Lecture on the Aboriginees
of Australia

Permit me Mr Chairman, Ladies & Gentlemen,
to make a few preliminary ob-
servations in reference to the Abori-
ginees of Australia - the subject
I have promised to discuss, before
I proceed to the various particulars
which may deserve an inquiry res
pecting them.
And first I would guard you,
lest you or some of you should
raise your expectations too high as
to the interesting information you might receive
respecting them. A poor, widely &
thinly scattered race, of wandering
unsettled & uncivilized habits as
are the Aboriginees of this country
can scarcely afford much of interest
either to be instructive or to amuse or to satis-

FL661338

Lecture on the Aboriginees
of Australia

Permit me Mr Chairman, Ladies & Gentlemen,
to make a few preliminary ob-
servations in reference to the Abori-
ginees of Australia - the subject
I have promised to discuss, before
I proceed to the various particulars
which may deserve an inquiry res
pecting them.
And first I would guard you,
lest you or some of you should
raise your expectations too high as
to the interesting information you might receive
respecting them. A poor, widely &
thinly scattered race, of wandering
unsettled & uncivilized habits as
are the Aboriginees of this country
can scarcely afford much of interest
either to be instructive or to amuse or to satis-