Historical Records of Victoria: Beginnings of permanent government

Book excerpt: V. 2A, 2B :Official and private papers dealing with early contacts between settlers and Aborigines; appointment of Protectors of Aborigines, reports of hostilities, extracts from House of Commons Select Committee on Aborigines, Buntingdale (Wesleyan) and Port Phillip missions, Native Police Corps; subsistence and material culture observed; papers of J.R. Orton, G.M. Langhorne, J. Dredge, W. Thomas; careers of F. Fyans, C.W. Sievwright, E.S. Parker; policies on care of Aboriginal orphans and servants, legal rights and protection; index to individual Aborigines -- V.6 :Reproduced primary documents containing mainly brief references to Aborigines; accounts by various members of Mitchells 1836 expedition of conflict with Aborigines near Lake Benanee and associated Legislative Council inquiry documents; the Port Phillip Association and attitude to Aboriginal land rights; complaints of attacks on livestock and settlers in objections to the Squatting Act, 1839; treatment of Aborigines in the standing orders of the Border Police; mention of battle with Aborigines at Yering 1840 - arrest and escape of Jackie Jackie; Tyers expedition; conflict on Mount Wedge station; financing the Protectors of Aborigines -- v. 8: Cumulative indexes to vols 1-7; index of Aboriginal personal names.