his gun; this risk he
incurred. He led the black to his hut, and gave him food and blankets
for his companions; and soon succeeded in completely conciliating them
all. They joined him in hunting the opossum: thus he drew them on to the
military party stationed at Captain Moriarty's. This man certainly
deserved the reward he obtained, and the government notice of an action
so courageous and humane, must have mitigated the fierce spirit of his
class.

The orders and notices issued by the Governor during this year,
represent the powerful agitation of the public mind, and from which he
himself was by no means free. Sometimes, the hope of reconciliation
seemed strong; thus, August 19th, he states that Captain Welch and Mr.
G. A. Robinson had obtained a friendly parley with a hostile tribe. It
was ordered, that no attempt should be made to capture or restrain such
aborigines as might approach the settlement; but that, after supplying
them with food, they should be suffered to depart.

He found it necessary to explain the conditions on which rewards were
offered for capture, which had been abused, by the violent detention of
inoffensive natives: those who, in attempting to arrest them, were
guilty of wanton mischief, were threatened with the penalties of the
law. These orders were followed by outrages, which threw doubt on the
propriety of distinctions: the ally of to-day, was the robber of
yesterday, and the assassin of the morrow. The natives of the south-west
districts of the colony, and of the islands, were still exempted from
proscription; but an explanatory notice, authorised the settlers, by
whatever necessary means, to anticipate, or repel, the barbarous
attacks, now renewed with terrible frequency and atrocity.

These public instructions indicate the alternate feelings which
prevailed: they were natural to men who, reflecting on the origin of the
warfare, felt that measures, now indispensable, were not wholly
guiltless.

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OFFICIAL LIST OF ATROCITIES COMMITTED BY THE NATIVES.

1830.--January 1. William Smith, in the employ of ---- Triffet,
jun., killed near the river Ouse. Piper's hut, at Bark Hut Plains,
broken open and plundered of a musket, blankets, sugar, &c. Captain
Clark's hut, at Bark Hut Plains, robbed, and his house entered by
the natives.

February 1st. Mr. Brodie's hut, near the Clyde, was attacked while
he was in