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fair and reafonable, when it was recollected that the means by which 

 individuals had fo far improved their farms, had arifen from the very- 

 liberal manner in which government had given up the labour of fo 

 great a number of its own fervants, to afhft the induftry of others. 

 He further faid, that if this reprefentation fhouid fail of the effect which 

 he hoped and expeCted, by procuring a reduction of the prefent high 

 price of grain, he mould think it his duty to propofe, that thofe who 

 were affiled with fervants from government mould at Ieaft undertake 

 to furniih thofe fervants with bread. 



A report from the river was current at this time, that the natives 

 had affembled in a large body, and attacked a few fet tiers, who had 

 ehofen farms low down the river, and beyond the reach of protection, 

 from the other fettlers, flapping them of every article that they could: 

 find in their huts. An armed party was directly fent out, who, com- 

 ing up with them, killed four men and one woman, badly wounded a 

 child, and took four men prifoners. It might have been fuppofed, 

 that thefe punifnrnents, following the enormities fo immediately, would 

 have taught the natives to keep at a greater diftanee ; but nothing 

 feemed to deter them from profecuting the revenge which they had 

 vowed againft the fettlers for the injuries that they had received at 

 their hand a, 



A report prevailed, that black Casfar, a conviCt, and a favage of a 

 darker hue, had in his life done one meritorious action, by killing Per- 

 mui-wy, who had juft before wounded Collins (the -native) fo dange- 

 roufly, that his recovery was a matter of very great doubt with the. 

 furgeon at the hofpital, whofe affiftance Collins had requefted as foon 

 as he had been brought into the town by his friends* A barbed fpear 

 had been driven into his loins dole by the vertebras of the back, and 

 w r as fo completely fixed, that all the efforts of the furgeons to remove 

 it with their instruments were ineffectual. Finding, after a day or 

 two, that it could not be difplaced by art, Collins left the hofpital, de- 

 termined to trull to nature; and it was afterwards found that his truft 



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