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    Explorers and Aborigines: a survey of contact between Australian Aborigines and six land explorers, 1828-1862
    Kelly, Lee ( 1980)
    Australian land explorers of the 19th century maintain a place in Australian history as “discoverers”, opening up the land for settlement. In penetrating far beyond the settled districts these explorers were not only the first to see new lands, they were usually the first to meet the Aborigines living there. Often they were asked by the government to include in the journals of their expeditions information about the habits and customs of these people. My research is a study of the journals of six such land explorers; Charles Sturt, Thomas Mitchell, George Grey, Edward John Eyre, Augustus Charles Gregory, and John McDouall Stuart, whose journeys spanned the years 1828 to 1862, from the point of view of their contact with Aborigines. The objective was to analyse their responses to the people they met and the culture they observed. (For complete introduction open document)