ast discovered.
Mr. Robinson now requested that the armed parties should be recalled,
depots established to afford an asylum to the captives, and additional
agents employed. Mr. Cotterell, and others were engaged to act in
subordination to the movements of Robinson. The Sydney blacks, ten of
whom had been brought down by Mr. Batman, for the mission, had been
found less useful: they were rewarded, and sent home. The aborigines of
New Holland despised the Tasmanian blacks--a race, ignorant of the
_womera_![20]

In the following September, 1831, Mr. Robinson obtained another
considerable accession, assisted by Lemina Beginna: they travelled,
backwards and forwards, for four hundred miles, and found old
acquaintances. Eumarrah, the chief of the Stony Creek tribe, when he saw
Mr. Robinson, ran to him and shook hands, and with five men and one
woman, gave himself up: three only of his tribe remained! The captives
were described as remarkably athletic: they talked incessantly, and
complained bitterly that their women had been stolen. The inequality of
numbers confirmed this charge. While Robinson was with them, a boat's
crew came in sight; and it required all his influence to prevent the
natives from retreating with precipitation. Thus the evil they suffered
in their first intercourse, pursued them to the last moment of their
freedom.

M'Kay, who had been employed under Mr. Robinson, added to these
captures. Two friendly native women accompanied him, and they followed
the track for a week. At last, they found the natives encamped in a
plain: in the dead of night the party dashed in among them, and took two
men, one woman, and a boy. Surrage, also assisted by two native females,
captured eight men and two women. Their method was curious: the tame
women were sent up the hill, where the fires were seen: they returned;
four men followed them down to the boat, and six others, men and women,
were speedily seen in the footsteps of their companions.

While these captures were proceeding, Mr. Robinson started for the
Surrey Hills and Circular Head. He left the party lately conciliated in
Launceston: they were cheerful, and expected their proposed voyage to
the islands with great glee. They spoke of their past outrages without
reluctance, which they justified by relating the cruelties they had
suffered.

The Governor was anxious to notice every instance of intrepidity and
kindness: it is the coward that is ferocious. The indulgence