SKETCH OF A RESIDENCE AMONG THE ABORIGINALS OF NORTHERN QUEENSLAND FOR SEVENTEEN YEARS; BEING A NARRATIVE OF MY LIFE, SHIPWRECK, LANDING, ON TIKI COAST, RESIDENCE AMONG THE ABORIGINALS, WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THEIR MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, AND MODE OF LIVING ; TOGETHER WITH NOTICES OF MANY OF ‘TILE NATURAL PRODUCTIONS, AND OF THE NATURE OF THIS COUNTRY,
BY JAMES MORRILL.
QUEENSLAND: PRINTED AT THE COURIER GENERAL PRINTING OFFICE, GEORGE-STREET, 1863,
NOTE.
I have so many invitations to wait on persons for the purpose of narrating my past sufferings, which were painful enough to pass through, without calling them to remembrance day after day, at the wish of anybody who may desire it; and the invitations rather increasing than otherwise, I have deemed it desirable to put on record my experiences in this brief sketchy manner, containing as it does, the principal events and disasters that happened during my forced banishment from civilised life ; which will be found to contain too, more than could be expressed in a single interview, with the desire of affording information to those who wish it, to satisfy the curiosity of the many, and also with the hope that it may yield me what I much need—the means of living. I may possibly, if I'm spared, very much extend this small pamphlet; but, under present circumstances I can make no promise. I take this opportunity of publicly thanking His Worship the Mayor of Brisbane for his kindness to me since I have been here.
