CHAPTER IX. 
SUGGESTIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF SYSTEM ADOPTED 
TOWARDS THE NATIVES. 
In the preceding chapters I have given a general 
outline of the character, manners, and customs of 
the Aborigines of Australia, and of the effects pro- 
duced upon them by a contact with civilization. 
I have thus endeavoured to lay before the public 
their present state and future prospects, and as far 
as I am able, have attempted to explain what ap- 
pear to me the reasons that so little success has 
hitherto attended Missionary, or other efforts, in 
their behalf. I would sincerely hope, that the 
accounts which I have given, may not be altogether 
useless ; but that a certain knowledge of the real 
position of the natives, of the just claims they have 
upon us, and of the little prospect that exists of any 
real or permanent good being effected for them, 
until a great alteration takes place in our system, 
and treatment, may be the means of attracting 
attention to their condition, and of enlisting the 
sympathy of my fellow-countrymen in their cause. 
Englishmen have ever been ready to come for- 
ward to protect the weak, or the oppressed ; nor 
