The Passing of the Aborigines is Daisy Bates's account of the native Australians inhabiting Nullarbor Plain. Contents: "A Vanished People Chapter 1. - Meeting with the Aborigines Chapter 2. - In a Trappist Monastery Chapter 3. - Sojourn in the Dreamtime Chapter 4. - The Beginning of Initiation Chapter 5. - The End of Initiation, the Blood-Drinking Chapter 6. - Three Thousand Miles in a Side-Saddle Chapter 7. - Last of the Bibbulmun Race Chapter 8. - South-West Pilgrimage."