An Indigenous South

Contents

Acknowledgements vii

Foreword by Dennis O'Brien ix

Matthew P. Fitzpatrick and Peter Monteath, 'Einheimisch':

German (Mis)Understandings of Indigenous Australians 1

Sojourners and Immigrants

Hermann Koeler, 'Some Notes on the Natives on the East Coast

of Gulf St. Vincent in South Australia, 1837 and 1838' 23

Dirk Meinerts Hahn, 'On the Savages, or Natives, in South Australia' 41 Friedrich GerstaÌcker, Australia 49 Gustav Listemann, 'On the Natives' 66 Emil Jung, 'The Murray Estuary and Its Inhabitants' 76

Missionaries

Christian Gottlob Teichelmann, 'Letters, Diaries and Reports' 91 Clamor Wilhelm SchuÌrmann, 'Letters and Diary' 115 Samuel Gottlieb Klose, 'Letter to Dresden' 143 Heinrich August Eduard Meyer, 'Manners and Customs

of the Aborigines of the Encounter Bay Tribe, South Australia' 147 Carl Strehlow, 'The Aborigines of Central Australia' 160

Geographers and Naturalists

Hans Hermann Behr, 'On the Aborigines of Adelaide Based on

His Own Observations during His Stay There' 173

Wilhelm von Blandowski, 'On the Aborigines of Australia' 184 Charles Wilhelmi, 'Manners and Customs of the Port Lincoln

Natives in Australia' 193 Georg von Neumayer, 'On the Intellectual and Moral Characteristics

of the Natives of Australia' 222 Anthropologists and Ethnographers

Wilhelm Krause, 'Anthropological Journey to Australia' 243

Erhard Eylmann, 'Journey to Point McLeay' 250

Leonhard Adam, 'On the Customs and Law of Some Australian

Tribes: Personal First-hand Accounts from Two Natives' 263

Index 279