onable fiction.]

[Footnote 31: Report of Mr. Jones to Governor Arthur.]

[Footnote 32: "I remember a fellow of the 'Grimaldi' breed: he
undertook, on a fine summer's evening, to place himself among the tree
stumps of a field, so that not two of a large party should agree as to
his identity. He reclined like a Roman on his elbow, projected his arm
as if a small branch, and drew down his head. No one could tell which
was the living stump, and were obliged to call him to come out and shew
himself."--_Dr. Ross's "Fourteen years ago."_]

[Footnote 33: Song of Ben Lomond:--

"Ne popula raina pogana
Thu me gunnea
Naina kaipa raina pogana
Naara paara powella paara.
Ballahoo,
Hoo hoo,
War whoop (very gutteral)."

--_Tas. Journal._]

[Footnote 34: This is common to the race: there is one now at Geelong,
whose imitations enabled the spectator at once to guess the person
intended.]

[Footnote 35: A female, born on this division of the globe, once stood
at the foot of London bridge, and _cooeyed_ for her husband, of whom she
had lost sight, and stopped the passengers by the novelty of the sound;
which, however, is not unknown in certain neighbourhoods of the
metropolis. Some gentlemen, on a visit to a London theatre, to draw the
attention of their friends in an opposite box, called out _cooey_; a
voice, in the gallery, answered--"Botany Bay!"]

[Footnote 36: "You are to endeavour, by every means in your power, to
open an intercourse with the natives, and to conciliate their good
will--enjoining all persons under your government to live in amity and
kindness with them; and if any person shall exercise any acts of
violence against them, or shall wantonly give them any interruption in
the exercise of their several occupations, you are to cause such
offender to be brought to punishment, according to the degree of the
offence."--_Lord Hobart's instructions to Lieutenant-Governor Collins._]

HISTORY OF TASMANIA.

TRANSPORTATION.

TRANSPORTATION.

SECTION I.

Transportation, considered not as a question of national policy but as a
fact, demands a place in this record. It will be our object to ascertain
those incidents which illustrate its local operation--to trace events
that have attended the repeated changes in its colonial spirit. It
belongs to the British statesman to scan its effects on the population
of the empire; but fairly to exhibit its Aust