the first of her race ever known to gallop.
Horsemen pursued her for two days, without overtaking her.

In those numerous publications, which precede 1824, the
aborigines are always represented as originally friendly, and only
dangerous when excited by cruelty. It was the boast of the times, that
the whole island could be crossed in safety by two persons armed with
muskets; and Curr, who wrote latest, does not even mention their
existence. It is difficult to imagine more decided proof, that at this
time the depredations of the blacks were neither numerous nor
sanguinary.

It is the general opinion, however, that the remonstrances of Sorell had
been attended with some success, and that the settlers and stock-keepers
were not unimpressed with his predictions of a more concerted and
continuous revenge; nor can we doubt that many persons of humanity even
exaggerated this peril, to restrain those brutal natures which are
sensible only of personal risk.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 3: "The natives, who have been rendered desperate by the
cruelties they have experienced from our people, have now begun to
distress us by attacking our cattle. Two were lately wounded by them at
Collins-vale; and three, it is reported, belonging to George Guest, have
been killed at Blackman's Bay. As this tribe of natives have hitherto
been considered friendly, the change in their conduct must be occasioned
by some outrage on our part, No account having been received up to this
time of William Russell and George Getley, there can be no doubt of the
miserable death they have been put to. This unfortunate man, Russell, is
a striking instance of divine agency, which has overtaken him at last,
and punished him by the hands of those very people who have suffered so
much from him; he being well known to have exercised his barbarous
disposition in murdering or torturing any who unfortunately came within
his reach."--_The Derwent Star, January 29th, 1810._]

[Footnote 4: Eye-witness.]

[Footnote 5: "ORDER.--From the conduct of the native people, when free
from any feeling of injury towards those who have held intercourse with
them, there is strong reason to hope, that they might be conciliated. On
the north-eastern coast, where boats occasionally touch, and at
Macquarie Harbour, where the natives have been lately seen, they have
been found inoffensive and peaceable, _and they are known to be equally
inoffensive, where the stock-keepers treat them with mi