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Sources of Australian history / selected and edited by M. Clark
Bib ID 2269784
Format BookBook
Description London : Oxford University Press, 1957 
xii, 622 p. ; 16 cm. 
ISBN 0192505580
Series

World's classics.

Summary

p.25-27; Encounter on north-west coast (Dampier); Description of natives; bodily decorations; types of food; weapons; p.42-7; Botany Bay (Cook); Huts; canoes; weapons; food; p.51-5; Endeavour River (Cook); Appearance; bodily ornamentations; weapons; huts; canoes; p.89-97; Botany Bay & Port Jackson; Appearance; huts; canoes; dingoes; behaviour of native women; amputation of little finger; clashes with natives; weapons; type of burial (Tench); p.128-130; First annual meeting at Parramatta in 1814, and proposition to natives to become settlers; First native school in 1815; p.178-183; Clashes with natives at Glenelg.

Full contents Includes index 
Notes

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references.

Subjects Housing - Shelters.  |  Transport - Water - Canoes.  |  Initiation - Finger amputation.  |  Death - Mortuary customs.  |  Weapons.  |  Animals - Mammals - Dingoes / Dogs.  |  Settlement and contacts - Explorers.  |  Education - Schools.  |  Body - Decoration.  |  Settlement and contacts - Colonisation - 1788-1850.  |  Australia -- History -- 1788-1900.  |  Australia -- History -- 20th century.  |  Endeavour River (Qld SE Cape York SD55-13)  |  Western Australia (WA)  |  Parramatta (W Sydney NSW SI56-05)  |  Glenelg River (W Vic SJ54-07, SJ54-08)  |  Botany Bay (S Sydney NSW SI56-05)
Other authors/contributors Clark, Manning, 1915-1991

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