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Series: Aboriginal history monograph ; no. 26.

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Cover images: Map of the Runs of the late Edward Curr, of St Heliers, from Edward M. Curr, 1883, Recollections of Squatting in Victoria (Melbourne: G. Robertson); Edward M. Curr (c.1880), photograph courtesy of Ian G. Curr; Edward M. Curr’s Map of Bangerang territory, from Edward M. Curr, 1886, The Australian Race (Melbourne: John Ferres, Govt. Printer), vol III, 566.

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