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game of the wilds that the European does not 
destroy for his amusement are driven away by his 
flocks and herds.* The waters are occupied and 
* “ But directly an European settles down in the country, 
his constant residence in one spot soon sends the animals away 
from it, and although he may in no other way interfere with the 
natives, the mere circumstance of his residing there, does the 
man on whose land he settles the injury of depriving him of his 
ordinary means of subsistence.” — Grefs Travels , voh ii. p. 298. 
“ The great question was, were we to give them no equivalent 
for that which we had taken from them ? Had we deprived 
them of nothing ? Was it nothing that they were driven from 
the lands where their fathers lived, where they were born and 
which were endeared to them by associations equally strong 
with the associations of more civilised people? He believed 
that their affections were as warm as the Europeans.” “ Per- 
haps he obtained his subsistence by fishing, and occupied a slip 
of land on the banks of a river or the margin of a lake. Was 
he to be turned off as soon as the land was required, without any 
consideration whatever ?” “ Had any proper attempt been made 
for their civilization ? They had not yet had fair play — they had 
been courted by the missionaries with the Bible on the one hand, 
and had at the sametime be en driven away and destroyed by the 
stock-keepers on the other. He thought that they might be 
reclaimed if the proper course was adopted.” — Extracts from 
the Speech of Sydney Stephen , Esq., at a meeting on behalf of 
the Aborigines in Sydney , October 19, 1838. 
I have myself repeatedly seen the natives driven off private 
lands in the vicinity of Adelaide, and their huts burned, even in 
cold wet weather. The records of the Police Office will shew 
that they have been driven off the Park lands, or those belonging 
to Government, or at least that they have been brought up and 
punished for cutting wood from the trees there. What are they 
to do, when there is not a stick or a tree within miles of Adelaide 
that they can legally take ? 
