The Life and Labours of George Washington Walker, of Hobart Town, Tasmania

Book excerpt: P.43-44; Firing of huts & killing at Green Valley; p.46-47; Description of wooden spears & waddy; p.88-112; Aborigines on Flinders & Green Islands shelters, physical appearance, body ornamentation & scarification; foods - cooking & eating of mutton birds, other types of food, dancing, types of songs, hostile feeling between Port Dalrymple & Western tribes; inspection of site for new Settlement; illnesses believed to be agency of malevolent being, after-death beliefs; women belonging to sealers, treatment of women by sealers; necklaces presented to party; p.116, 119; Saving Aboriginal women from the sealers; p.120; Method of cremation (Western tribes); p.224-227; Visit to Wellington Valley Mission - killing of unwanted babies, prejudice against half-caste children; p.240-243; Moreton Island; Corroboree, notes on fishing nets, spears, clubs, boomerangs; Amity Point; Huts, foods; p.259; Shoalhaven area; Foods, transmigration of souls, belief about porpoises; p.283; Perth; Treatment of natives, early conflict between Murray & Swan tribes, relations between settlers & Aborigines.