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Aboriginal people, their habits and their dialects, compiled from numerous reports he had elicited from settlers, missionaries and others who had direct knowledge of Indigenous peoples of Australia, and who responded to his questionnaires.
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February 1841 Curr returned to the District to manage a handful of his father's
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Prentis, Malcolm D. (1998). "Research and friendship: John Mathew and his
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406:"E.M. Curr's Australian Comparative Vocabulary"
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216:and then around the
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260:Pure Saddle Horses
247:in sheep in 1876.
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206:Auckland
192:and the
170:Victoria
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100:Tasmania
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