Rediscovering Indigenous Languages

of this outrage , a few of the Mudgee tribe [words crossed out] some months after, went across to [Crossed out: Wellington] the McQuaries and, after having watched some McQ. Blacks for a few days one morning suddenly surprised two or three of them when bathing in a deep water hole not many miles below Wellington, and these threw their spears & other weapons at them till they sunk in the water. This caused great consternation among the neighbouring Wellington tribe. They came to Mudgee and remained in this neighbourhood for some months, night after night apprehending to be suddenly surprised by the [indecipherable], & [indecipherable] tribes. Repeatedly they encamped just below my garden and gave me more than once a [indecipherable] in the evening, to leave my ketchen door & the back door of my house open that they might take refuge on my prmises should the enemy come, telling me at he same time they would call me up when they were attacked. Several of them have been my former scholars, and were personally perfectly innocent in the whole affair. However the enemy never came & they returned after a while to Wellington

[Column 1] Date Septbr [September] 7th Slaughtered on the 7th Sept.: Pull bullock 630 lbs Septbr [September] 18th

[Column 2] [indecipherable] [indecipherable] 120 lbs [indecipherable] = 240

[Column 3] [indecipherable] Meat 17 Sugar 49 1d = 10 [indecipherable]

[Column 4] [indecipherable] Meat 30 lbs Sugar 41 -- 2 Tea 10 [ounce?] [indecipherable] = 40 lbs Soap 1 [indecipherable]

[Column 5] Lamb Rob Meat 84 [indecipherable] 14 lbs Sugar 1 lbs Tea 2 [indecipherable] Bf: [Beef?] 11 lbs Bf: [Beef?] 7 1/2 lbs

[Column 6] Shepherds Meat 13 1/2 [indecipherable] 36 lbs Sugar 4 lbs Tea 10 [indecipherable] Bf 13 lbs Soap 11/2 lbs Bf 22 1/2/2 [written upsidedown] 14 18 ----- 112 14 ------ 262

[Column 7] Natives Sugar 3lbs [indecipherable] 32 lbs

[superimposed page] here I would mention those mysterious caves of which there is one found in the district of Dabu. One of the Blacks referred to these caves as proof that their ancestors or else some other ancient native must have known more than any of them knew [indecipherable] adding we could not make such marks; "we not clever enough for that For the information of these who may not have heard of them ever before, I would merely state, that besides other remarkable features, these caves contain [word crossed out] impressions of hands & parts of the [indecipherable] very neatly executed, [indecipherable] among which some delicate female hands can be distinguished. The whole appears as if originally done in [indecipherable] There is still a reddish hue remaining

from the Australians of this counry have generally, very projecting jawbones wide mouths. Their noses are rather fla[t] cheek bones projecting considerably their eyes deeply sunk. But [word crossed out] though fairly handsome, still there are many fa[indecipherable] whose countenances are [word crossed out] better [indecipherable] and though less gentle, they may compare to some extent in their formation with the Asiatic tribes. But as already into to ascertain from their circumstances, their or relation to the inhabitants of other countries whether of the Mongolian or African races is simply impossible. In all these tribes are more intimatly [indecipherable] and their languages more fully understood so that we can draw comparisons and be better able to decide certain [indecipherable] and to satisfy some of our inquiries that there is a great similarity of the of all the Australians, in this Colony, divided into numerous dialects, may from Moreton Bay to Victoria & as as South Australia. I feel satisfied from various inquiries I [words crossed out]

I will at once inform this audience that I tried to bring all these subjects into one lecture but found I could not so compress it without rendering my statements too dry & bare as many of them will require certain illustrations. I therefore have resolved to confine myself this evening [word crossed out] to a certain portion, and then if you are satisfied and the Committee of the Institution request me, I shall be ready on a future occasion sooner or later to deliver the remaining parts of the various subjects.

1, The first question or questions which will naturally arise in our minds or be asked some of us are: Where did the original inhabitants of ?___? come to this area by? when & how did they come? To what nation do they seem to be related? When they ?___? ?????????? as they are now?

I regret my friends, that neither I or any one else can give satisfactory answer to any of these questions, though ?we? may throughout ?___? ?___? as ?___? ?___?, but ?as/on? the ???????? remain ?letter/better? ?___? than ?___? & ?___? . As ?___? of you must know ancient ?___? in altogether ?island? ?___? this part of the globe; and the Aborigines are utterly ?__? & ?___? of their own ???????????? ?needs? of ? . ?___? ?___? travellers & ?___? who have never ?been? explored new coasts added must ?___? in the ?___? of the Aborigines .

arise in our minds or be asked by some of us are: Whence did the original inhabitants of Australia come to this country? When and how did they come? To what nation do they seem to be related? Were they originally as ignorant & uncivilized as they are now? I regret, my friends, that neither I nor any one else can give satisfactory answers to any of these questions, though we may [indecipherable] some hints as to probabilities; but on the whole all will remain little more than suppositions & conjectures. As many of you must know, ancient history, is altogether silent, about this part of the globe; and Aboriginees are utterly without a history of their own, & have scarcely any fragments of tradition. Nor have travellers & naturalists who have more or less explored our coasts added much information on the subject of the Aboriginees.

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To [word crossed out] trace certain resemblances amongst them [words crossed out] [words crossed out] to some of the American tribes. But in all probability they came originally from Asia & might have been a mixed & somewhat degenerate race then, [words crossed out] There is between the Atlantic & the Indian Ocean a chain of [word crossed out] numerous islands, we may say, more than one chain connecting [word crossed out] Australia with [words crossed out] India & other parts of Asia [word crossed out] [word crossed out] There is, for instance New Guinea the Celebes, the Phillipines & Caroline islands & Borneo [word crossed out] nearer still we find [word crossed out] connecting links of islands such as Timor, Java, Sumatra leading close to & the Malay Peninsula [word crossed out] with some smaller ones intervening, the difficulty would not be great to come here by this [indecipherable] Nor is the distance so great from Africa by way of Madagascar & the Mauritians as to render it impossible [word crossd out] that some propitious winds might have driven some boats or canoes in safety to these shores. And thus if in no other way we might account for the [words crossed out] African admixture [word crossed out] supposed to exist in some of the islands & partly in Australia. Whether the orginal inhabitants, left their [word crossed out] former country [words crossed out] from necessity in search of new habitations, or by accident overruled by Providence to people this country

Statn. at N. end Pt. Bare

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Statn. at N. end N. Base - also 832 yards in Length.

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Stn. at > Wall left side st. opp. [indecipherable] office.

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With the Theodolite, for a General Survey, Station at the South end of a Base of 832 yards, measured on the sandy beach at Botany Bay, with rods of 16 feet =(156 Rods)

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