spirit in A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia

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A Descriptive Vocabulary of the Language in Common Use Amongst the Aborigines of Western Australia; George Fletcher Moore

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1842

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Early Colonial

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Western Australia (WA): B

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WA

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of mutual eommunieation in all public matters, wlielhcr of explanation, negotiation, exam i nation, or prosecution. At length, in the year 183Q, that ahle and talented ofBcer, Lieutenant (now Captain) G. Grey, Governor of South AnsCmlia, whilst resting from liis labours of exploring the country, fnrned his attention to this subject, in compliance with tlie spirit of the inatruotionB which he was acting, and cotnpiled a vocabulary, was published in the colony in the shape of a .phlet This was subsequently republished in Lon- don, with the addition of some words, ohicfly peculiar to the locality of King George's Sound. These will !«.

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