Aborigines of Victoria : With Notes Relating to the Habits of the Natives of Other Parts of Australia and Tasmania Compiled from Various Sources for the Government of Victoria. Volume 1 /

Robert Brough Smyth (1830–1889) was a successful Melbourne-based mining engineer and civil servant whose international contacts included the geologist Adam Sedgwick. He also spent 16 years as Secretary of the Board for the Protection of the Aborigines. In this study of the society and customs of ind...

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Main Author: Smyth, Robert Brough (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Place of publication not identified : publisher not identified, 1878.
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
Series:Cambridge library collection. Linguistics.
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511695223
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