it; he was speared in several parts of his body, but not
mortally; they stole blankets, tea, sugar, &c. 9th. Mr. Mazetti's
hut robbed; Lawrence Dering, servant to Mr. Bell, killed. 11th. Mr.
Bell's house and servants attacked on Great Jordan Lagoon; the
natives kept at bay from the house, but one man received a spear
through the thigh. Mr. Hopley murdered about a mile from Mr.
Betts'; James M'Carthy desperately wounded. 12th. Mr. Howell's
dwelling hut burned. Mrs. Howell and her children narrowly escaping
the flames. Twenty of Mr. Espie's sheep killed and maimed. Mr.
Thomson's hut attacked by forty or fifty. Mr. Paterson's shepherd
pursued by the natives. 17th. John Bluchaby and Philip Norboy
killed at Dysart parish, Oatlands, at noon day. Lawrence Murray,
servant to Mr. Bell, killed. A child killed at Bagdad, near the
road side. 20th. Mr. M'Rae's house, near Bothwell, plundered of
flour, and within a mile of the military station, at Bothwell. Mr.
Sherwin's house burned to the ground, with the greater part of his
property; his servants' hut and fences also consumed. The Weazle
Plains Hut burned down; a black man wounded, in the act of setting
fire to it. 22nd. Captain Clark's barn and corn stacks consumed,
containing 1,200 bushels of grain.

March 2nd. A hut, near Captain Clark's, fired. A hut, at Davis'
Marsh, plundered. 9th. A mob of natives appeared at Captain Smith's
hut, at his run; a part of them killed 100 of his sheep. 10th.
Piper's hut fired, and partly destroyed, 11th. Captain Wood's hut,
at Poole's Marsh, robbed. Mr. Jones' hut, Side Line Marsh,
threatened. Mr. Bisdee's hut attacked; also Mr. Thomson's stock
hut, and Mr. Brodribb's, at the Black Marsh. Mr. Denholme's hut, at
the same place, attacked, and his servant speared. 13th. M'Gennis'
hut, Richmond district, plundered of muskets, powder, and ball, and
every thing of value in the house. 15th. A hut, near the mouth of
the Carlton River, attacked, a man and woman dangerously wounded;
four spear wounds, and a cut on the head, supposed mortal. Another
woman speared through the arm. 19th. About forty natives attacked
the house of Mr. Brodribb, Black Marsh: they were divided into
small parties, and made their attacks simultaneously: one man
speared. On their being driven back, they procee