This is an extract from the original notebooks of Lieutenant William Dawes showing his attempts to learn the language of Sydney’s Aboriginal people (Vocabulary of the language of New South Wales in the neighbourhood of Sydney by William Dawes, 1790 – School of Oriental and African Studies, London – Marsden Collection MS 41645b – this image cannot be reproduced without permission of the School of Oriental and African Studies) [http://www.williamdawes.org]
