Description

• Subtitled: A Sketch Of Their Habits, Customs, Legends & Language. Also: An account of the efforts made by Mr & Mrs James Smith To Christianise & Civilise them
• Facsimile Copy [Libraries Board Of South Australia, Adelaide, 1965]; [2 publication details], xi, [blank], 139 [blank] pages; plain blue laminated boards, silver titling on spine, fingernail indent on front board, else fine
• Scarce facsimile reprint of truly rare account of Indigenous life in the South-east of South Australia
• Original book published in Adelaide in 1880
• Includes notes on the language and vocabulary – They call their language Drualat-ngolonung [speech of man], or Booandik-ngolo…
• Christina Smith & her husband, James, were Christian missionaries who moved to Rivoli Bay in 1945 & later to Mt Gambier. James died in 1860 but Mrs Smith continued her teaching for decades afterwards