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was then fired over their heads, which so alarmed 

 them, that they instantly fled, leaving their 

 spears, &c. and about 20 bushels of Indian corn 

 which they had stolen. 



Though many of the natives had been kindly 

 treated, yet they were seldom found to possess 

 any degree of gratitude. Bennillong him- 

 self, was as destitute in this respect as most 

 of his countrymen ; even their children, bred 

 up in the settlements, and who, from being ac- 

 customed to follow the settlers' manner of living, 

 might have been supposed to have no taste for 

 the life of their parents, when grown up, quitted 

 their hospitable abodes, and took to the same 

 savage mode of living, where the supply of 

 food was often uncertain, and their lives in 

 danger. The wife of a man named Ye-ra-ni-be, 

 both of whom had been brought up in the set- 

 tlement, w r as murdered in the brick-fields by 

 her husband, and Cole-be, who first beat her 

 about the head, and then drove a spear through 

 her heart. 



If spoken to for robbing the maize-grounds, 

 or corn-fields, to be revenged, they assembled 

 in large bodies, burned the houses of the 

 settlers, and frequently took their lives, though 

 seldom refused corn when they would ask for 

 it; that they were stimulated to this conduct by 

 some run-a-ways, who were among them at the 

 time there was no doubt. In order to get 

 these pests, a proclamation was issued, calling 

 on them by name to surrender within 14 days, 

 declaring them outlaws if they failed, and 



