The Aborigines of Western Australia

The Aborigines of Western Australia is an in-depth and time-accurate study of indigenous people in the western region of Australia from an English point of view. Excerpt: "ANY attempt to fathom the depth of mystery which surrounds the history of the Australian Aboriginal must necessarily be--in the main--a failure. The subject is surrounded by difficulty. Captain Dampier was the first Englishman known to have made the acquaintance of the Australian natives, whom he calls "the poor winking people of New Holland, the miserablest people on earth," and so forth."