250 AUSTRALIAN FEMALE. 



when she again saved him, by engaging to 

 point out to the police his place of retreat, and 

 absolutely led them away, under that pretence, 

 in a contrary direction, affording her paramour 

 both time and opportunity to seek out a safer 

 asylum. When she arrived with the police at 

 the spot she had informed them he last was, he 

 of course was not there, and a strict search in 

 the vicinity was equally unsuccessful : she then 

 left them to continue their pursuit after the cri- 

 minal, pretending to know nothing further res- 

 pecting him or his place of concealment. At 

 last he was captured by venturing out too boldly 

 during her absence, was tried, condemned, 

 and expiated his offences on the scaffold at 

 Sydney. 



She wished to follow him, on hearing he was 

 a prisoner ; but that was impossible : so, re- 

 claimed by her tribe, she was obliged to become 

 an unwillino; wife of one of the blacks. It is but 

 too well known in what degradation the female 

 sex are held among savage nations, so different 

 from the deference and respect so justly given 

 to that amiable and gentle portion of the cre- 

 ation in civilized life. This unfortunate female 

 was ordered by her husband, whose word is law, 

 to follow him, at a time when she was rendered 

 incapable by illness : — on her hesitating, he 

 struck her with savage barbarity with his toma- 



