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them in a town, or more thickly inhabited district. 
Such are those afforded by the charity of individuals, 
by the rewards received for performing trifling 
services of work, by the obtaining vast quantities of 
offal, or of broken victuals, which are always abun- 
dant in a country where animal food is used in 
excess, and where the heat of the climate daily 
renders much of it unfit for consumption in the 
family, and by others of a similar nature. 
Such resources, however humiliating and per- 
nicious they are in their effects, are not open to the 
tribes living in a district almost exclusively occupied 
by the sheep or cattle of the settler, and where the 
very numbers of the stock only more completely 
drive away the original game upon which the native 
had been accustomed to subsist, and hold out a 
greater temptation to him to supply his wants from 
the superabundance which he sees around him, 
belonging to those by whom he has been dispossessed. 
The following appropriate remarks are an extract 
from Report of the Aborigines’ Protection Society, of 
March, 1841, (published in the South Australian 
Register, 4th December, 1841.) 
“ Under that system it is obvious to every coloured 
man, even the least intelligent, that the extending 
settlements of the Europeans involve a sentence of 
banishment, and eventual extermination, upon his 
tribe and race. Major Mitchell, in his travels, refers 
to this apprehension on the part of the Aborigines 
—“White man come, Kangaroo go away” — from 
