A considerable portion of this volume consists of Mr. In all New South Wales, there are only five thousand full-blood blacks only four or five hundred in Victoria and in Tasmania the native race became extinct in They have decayed and are decaying in spite of the fostering care of our Colonial Governments. The indigenes of the Sydney district are gone long ago, and some of the inland tribes are represented now only by a few families of wanderers. Presentation copies will be sent to the chief learned societies at home and abroad. THIS volume is issued by the Government of New South "Wales, as a record of the language of native tribes that are rapidly disappearing from the coasts of Eastern Australia. (Sgineg : CHAELES POTTER, GOVERNMENT PRINTEEĢ THE EDITOR'S PREFACE. SIeuiber of the Celtic Socitty of Montreal, Author of THE ETRUSCANS : WERE TIIEY CELTS? THE ABORIOIXES OF AUSTRALIA: THBIR ETHNIC POSITION AND RELATIOKS. Be-armnged, condensed, and edited, P' " WITE AN APPENDIX, BY JOHN FRASER, B.A., LL.D., Fellow of the.royal Society of NewSouth Wales Associate of the Victoria Institute of Great Britain Delegui General fwur VOcianie] dc  Allianc Scientijpe ds Paris Hott.
1 AN AUSTRALIAN LANGUAGE AS SPOKEN BY THE THE PEOPLE OF AWABA OR LAKE MACQUARIE (NEAR NEWCASTLE, NEW SOUTH WALES) BEING AN ACCOUNT OF Ã THEIR LANGUAGE, TRADITIONS, AND CUSTOMS : BY L.
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