158 NOTES ON THE ABORIGINES OF NEW HOLLAND, 
In conclusion, I wish to say that the singular recovery of 
these notes is due to the interest which Lord Audley and 
Mr. John Mann took in them, so much so as to have copied 
them in detail unknown to myself, and that their ade 
is due to the interest which Mr. Rolleston expressed about 
their having existed and been lost. To these gentlemen I wish 
to tender my thanks. Between a notes seem to 
have been destined not to be irrecoverably lost; and now that 
I have them again, and that as I have nearly the 
them to this our Sydney Royal Society. 
P.S.—The above constitutes my preface to the old notes 
which I am about to read you; but since I have penned 
this preface, and, indeed, only t this morning, I am_ placed m 
possession of st till further corroboration of the originality 0 
the subject matter of my notes. I had invited Dean 
to come here this evening, and, as an inducement I sent him 
a press copy of my preface to the notes, which he returned to-day 
with a very interesting note of his isda! part of which, I am 
sure, he would have no objection to my € 
me that he regretted that professional ye would prevent him 
from attending this mecting as a visitor, he givesm eres following 
information, which is most interesting, and gives acho 
confirmatio: written and said on ae subj 
ignorant of what he informs me as having come from tis 
Gunther and from the Rev. Mr. Ridley, although I knew 
they had both written on the subject of the faith of the blacks it 2 
years and years since the date of my notes ; and as they p? 
the same traditions, I shall quote them with the 
satisfaction. 
The Dean writes me as follows :—“I do not aed whether 
are aware that the late Archdeacon Gunther, of aes : 
pared a grammar of the aboriginal language, which went essor Mat 
few years ago, i, dirough the Colonial Secretary, to Professor 
Miiller. In this grammar there was a speci ic 
ace of the agg on the oe of a Baers > his Mr Ga 
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white men, as they had not then had intercourse a me 
language, also, was witness of their faith, There yrs 
whom they gave the name of Baimé, or Bhaiame. 
noun, from haio or bhaio, which means to cut or make, 
