1870s

1875

John Malone helps the ethnographer McKenzie draw up a Dharawal language list.

1876

There are very many extended family town camps in sheltered bays and inlets in Botany Bay, Cook’s River and Georges River. At this time, La Perouse is only one of dozens of such town camps, and not the most important.

South Coastal
Time Periods
Glossary

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