20 INTRODUCTION. 



Lake Wellington, a missionary in Gippsland, Victoria, 

 who has had much experience with the natives. From 

 Mr. Samuel Wilson, a landowner, residing at Langere- 

 nong, Wimmera, Victoria. From the Eev. George Tap- 

 lin, superintendent of the native Industrial Settle- 

 ment at Port Macleay. From Mr. Archibald G. Lang, 

 of Coranderik, Victoria, a teacher at a school where 

 aborigines, old and young, are collected from all parts 

 of the colony. From Mr. H. B. Lane, of Belfast, Vic- 

 toria, a police magistrate and warden, whose observa- 

 tions, as I am assured, are highly trustworthy. From 

 Mr. Templeton Bunnett, of Echuca, whose station is on 

 the borders of the colonv of Victoria, and who has thus 

 been able to observe many aborigines who have had 

 little intercourse with white men. He compared his 

 observations with those made by two other gentlemen 

 long resident in the neighbourhood. Also from Mr. J. 

 Buhner, a missionary in a remote part of Gippsland, 

 Victoria. 



I am also indebted to the distinguished botanist, Dr. 

 Ferdinand Muller, of Victoria, for some observations 

 made by himself, and for sending me others made by 

 Mrs. Green, as well as for some of the foregoing letters. 



In regard to the Maoris of New Zealand, the Bev. 

 J. W. Stack has answered only a few of my queries; 

 but the answers have been remarkably full, clear, and 

 distinct, with the circumstances recorded under which 

 the observations were made. 



The Bajah Brooke has given me some information 

 with respect to the Dyaks of Borneo. 



Bespecting the Malays, I have been highly success- 

 ful; for Mr. F. Geach (to whom I was introduced by Mr. 

 Wallace), during his residence as a mining engineer in 

 the interior of Malacca, observed many natives, who had 

 never before associated with white men. He wrote me 



