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whites, and who were said to be of a remarkably gentle and 

 kindly disposition. On December 28, 1834, the last survivors, 

 hounded down like wild beasts, were captured at the extremity of 

 a headland, and this event was celebrated as a signal triumph. 

 The successful hunter, Robinson, received a government reward 

 of six hundred acres and a considerable sum of money, besides a 

 public subscription of about eight thousand pounds. 



The captives were at first conveyed from islet to islet, and 

 then confined to the number of two hundred in a marshy valley 

 of Flinders Island, washed by the stormy waters of Bass Strait. 

 They were supplied with provisions and some lessons in the cate- 

 chism ; their community was even quoted as an example of the 



Fig. 3. — Lalla Rookh, the La^t Tasmanian. 



progress of Christian civilization. But after ten years of resi- 

 dence in this place of exile more than three fourths of the natives 

 had perished. Then pity was taken on them, and the twelve sur- 

 viving men, twenty-two women, and ten children, nearly all half- 

 breeds, were removed to a narrow promontory at Oyster Cove, 

 near Hobart, and placed under some keepers, who enriched them- 



