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with them for 3 ears^ and on that account he was 

 selected as a victim and killed. When the news of 

 Neinmal's death reached the settlement^ some other 

 Bijenelumbo people took reveng-e by killing* a 

 Monohar native within a few hundred yards of the 

 houses. Thus the matter rests at present^ but more 

 deaths will probably follow before the feud is ended. 

 Both these murders were committed under circum- 

 stances of the utmost atrocity^ the victims being" 

 surprised asleep unconscious of dang^er and perfectly 

 defenceless^ then aroused to find themselves treach- 

 erously attacked by numbers^ who^ after spearing* 

 them in many places^ fearfully mang'led the bodies 

 with clubs. 



In some of the settled districts of Australia mis- 

 sionaries have been established for many years back^ 

 still it must be confessed that the results of their 

 labours are far from being- encouraging*. Indeed no 

 less an authority than Mr. Eyre^ writing* in 1848^ 

 vuihesitatingiy states as folio avs : ''' Nor is it in my 

 recollection/' says he^ " that throug'hout the whole 

 leng'th and breadth of New Holland^ a single real and 

 permanent convert to Christianity has yet been made 

 among*st them.''* From Avhat I myself have seen 

 or heard^ in the colony of New South Wales^ I have 

 reason to believe the missionary efforts there^ while 

 proving* a complete failure so far as reg-ards the 

 Christianising' of the blacks, have yet been produc- 



* Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia, 

 &c. by E. J. Eyre, vol. ii. p» 420. 



