00 lbs. of flour (which they tied up), half
a basket of tobacco, 100 lbs. of sugar, a bag of tea, and a
considerable quantity of slop clothing: so great ingenuity was
displayed in the attack, that for some time it was supposed that
Europeans had conducted it. On the same day, the natives plundered
a hut, opposite to Mr. Scott's, of all the tea, sugar, flour, and
bedding, that were in it.

October 16th. The settlement at Sorell attacked by natives: one
severely wounded; four houses plundered of blankets, flour, tea and
sugar, and clothes of every description. 18th. Captain Stewart's
shepherd wounded by spears, and Mr. Guildas, a settler, killed by
two spear wounds. 19th, Natives showed themselves on the farms of
Messrs. Gatehouse and Gordon, and attacked the house of Mr. Gough,
whom they wounded severely.

November 16th. Two huts robbed on the Ouse. 18th. Captain Wight's
shepherd killed by natives; dreadfully mangled twenty-seven sheep.
A hut on the South Esk attacked by natives: every thing portable
sent off.

February 3rd, 1831. The natives attacked Mr. Bursby's house, on the
Tamar; speared Mr. Wallace in several parts of the body, and
inflicted several severe and dangerous wounds on his head: they
likewise wounded a child. The hut of Allright attacked by them;
plundered of every thing it had in it. The hut of Mr. Sutherland,
Nork Esk, robbed: three horses speared, three others wounded. A
woman, named M'Haskell, killed at Retreat, near Westbury: house
robbed of 300 lbs. of flour, knives and forks, blankets, chest of
tea, 100 lbs. of sugar, tobacco, two casks of butter, three
muskets, and powder. 7th. Stewart's house attacked by natives, who
were beaten off.

March 8th. Two sawyers attacked by natives; severely wounded. Two
huts, near New Norfolk, plundered. 12th. Mrs. Cunningham's hut, at
East Arm, robbed by natives: she and the child wounded, very
dangerously. 21st. Mr. Lawrence's servant murdered, and three men
dangerously wounded by the natives, on Norfolk Plains.

April 5th. J. Ralton speared through the body, whilst at work
splitting wood. 6th. N. Fitzgerald speared twice through the body,
whilst sitting reading at the door of his cottage; the house
plundered by the natives of guns, blankets, and other things. 7th.
The sa