pages 11-31 : Aboriginal settlement of Tasmania; animals and birds; physical anthropology, clothing, ornaments, body decoration, tribal groups, hunting and gathering; ochre gathering; food; shellfish cooking; fire use; weapons; huts and shelters; water transport; encounters with French explorers; previous European contact -- pages 45-51 : Conflict with the Aborigines : Port Dalrymple; Risdon Cove; relations between colonists and Aboriginal peoples; sealers treatment of Aboriginal women -- page 210: Chapter 11: The destruction of the Aborigines; Governor Arthur proclamation; introduction of martial law; descriptions of various violent encounters and atrocities; George Augustus Robinson's friendly missions; Robinsons observations on abalone fishing, hunting and gathering of Bruny island tribe; weapons; basket making; catamarans construction; habitation in villages; mortality from infectious disease; cremation; settler violence; treatment of Aboriginal women by sealers.