An Australian Parsonage; Or, The Settler and the Savage in Western Australia

Book excerpt: P.72-88; Barladong (60 miles E. of Perth) - visits to parsonage by natives, physical appearance, clothes, shelters built by women, camp arrangements; solitary fires lit to keep ghosts warm at grave; general beliefs; revenge killings for all deaths; description of graves; use of Wilghee for body decoration; p.99; Foods; p.128; Brief notes on Wesleyan Mission school at Barladong; Aboriginal school established by Mrs Camfield, Albany; native prison, Rottnest Island; p.142- 143; Burial; p.221-3; Kylies, birds eaten; p.228; Punishment for hunting in foreign tribal territory; p.257; Measles epidemic, 1860, King Georges Sound; p.273- 299; Account of New Norcia Mission (taken from Salvado, Memorie Storiche dell Australia ...); p.365; Glass spears; scarification; p.367-72; Fight over woman; wife inheritance; polygamy; p.414; Brief note on Aboriginal school at Perth.