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PREFACE. 
coercive character. The system proposed is at least 
one which by removing in a great measure tempta- 
tion from the native, and thereby affording compara- 
tive security to the settlers, will have a powerful 
effect in inducing the latter to unite with the 
Government in any efforts made to ameliorate the 
condition of the Aborigines ; a union which under 
present or past systems has not ever taken place, 
but one which it is very essential should be effected, 
if any permanent good is hoped for. 
To Mr. Moorhouse the author returns his best 
thanks for his valuable notes on the Aborigines, to 
which he is indebted for the opportunity of giving 
an account of many of the customs and habits of 
the Adelaide tribes. 
To Anthony Forster, Esq. he offers his warmest 
acknowledgments for his assistance in overlooking 
the manuscripts during the voyage from Australia, 
and correcting many errors which necessarily re- 
sulted from the hurried manner in which they were 
prepared ; it is to this kind supervision must be 
ascribed the merit — negative though it maybe— of 
there not being more errors than there are. 
