History of the district; original inhabitants, whaling, agriculture etc . Chapters 2 & 3: Story of Tjilbruke, creation ancestor for the Kaurna people and of Ngurunderi of the Ngarrindjeri people; some cultural differenecs between Ngarrindjeri and Kaurna peoples; burial customs; European observations on appearance, hunting, gathering and fishing, tending wounds, nomadic lifestyles, means of shelter, types of food, comunal violence; Rapid Bay Jack; kidnapping of Aboriginal women by European sealers; scattered references thereafter.
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Chapters 2 & 3: Story of Tjilbruke, creation ancestor for the Kaurna people and of Ngurunderi of the Ngarrindjeri people; some cultural differenecs between Ngarrindjeri and Kaurna peoples; burial customs; European observations on appearance, hunting, gathering and fishing, tending wounds, nomadic lifestyles, means of shelter, types of food, comunal violence; Rapid Bay Jack; kidnapping of Aboriginal women by European sealers; scattered references thereafter.