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Governor that they were not to attempt to make war or 

 prisoners, at their peril. I immediately communicated 

 with Mr. Edmonstone, the circumstances and the 

 reason of their dismissal without any gifts, and dire6led 

 that those gentlemen to whose care these people are 

 committed and to whom with good reason the tribes in 

 his vicinity were personally attached, to impress upon 

 them more fully the impropriety of their demands, and 

 that nothing but their services, and proofs of friendly 

 disposition by good behaviour, could ever induce the 

 Colony to bestow gifts upon them, except on such occa- 

 sions and at such times as the Government might think 

 proper, or when the Indians deserved them. I felt the 

 more necessity to use such precaution upon these points, 

 as however insignificant or trivial they might appear at 

 the commencement, they would possibly in a few years, 

 or even a shorter period, become a very great inconve- 

 nience and be attended with unpleasant consequences." 

 The last Bush expedition in which EoMONSTONE 

 appears to have been concerned, took place in 06lober, 

 1 814. One of the Indians reported that thirty runaways 

 had located themselves within a days' journey from 

 Warrow's Place, and that most of them had guns. 

 Edmonstone organised the expedition, which consisted 

 of the Post-holder, several gentlemen, and eighty Indians, 

 under the command of Lieut. Lees. Under the guidance 

 of the Indian who had discovered the camp, they 

 started on the 4th of 06lober, and found no very great 

 difficulties in marching through the bush and over the 

 savannahs. At nightfall the party encamped, and the 

 following morning at dawn they proceeded to surround 

 the settlement of the runaways. Their proje6t was how- 



