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with them for years^ 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 revenge by kUling' a 

 Monobar 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 cu'cum- 

 stances of the utmost atrocity, the victims being- 

 surprised asleep unconscious of danger and perfectly 

 defenceless, then aroused to find themselves treach- 

 erously attacked by numbers, who, after spearing 

 them in many places, fearfuUy mangled 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 encom'aging. Indeed no 

 less an authority than Mr. Eyre, writing in 1848, 

 unhesitatingly states as follows : " Nor is it in my 

 recollection," says he, " that throughout the whole 

 length and breadth of New Holland, a single real and 

 permanent convert to Christianity has ^^et been made 

 amongst them."* From what I myself have seen 

 or heard, in the colonj^ of New South Wales, I have 

 reason to believe the missionary efforts there, while 

 proving a complete failure so far as regards 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. J20. 



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