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upon the Aborigines, in which it is stated that men, 
women, and children have been surprised, sur- 
rounded and shot down indiscriminately, at their 
sympathy and pity ; but the feeling of abhorrence which one act 
of savage retaliation or cruelty on your part will rouse, must 
weaken, if not altogether obliterate every other, in the minds of 
most men ; and I regret to state, that I have before me a state- 
ment presented in a form which I dare not discredit, shewing 
that such acts are perpetrated among you. 
“ It reveals a nightly attack upon a small number of natives, 
by a party of the white inhabitants of your district, and the 
murder of no fewer than three defenceless aboriginal women and 
a child, in their sleeping place ; and this at the very time your 
memorial was in the act of signature, and in the immediate 
vicinity of the station of two of the parties who have signed it. 
“ Will not the commission of such crimes call down the wrath 
of God, and do more to check the prosperity of your district, and 
to ruin your prospects, than all the difficulties and losses under 
which you labour ?” 
Mr. Sievewright’s letter gives an account of this infamous 
transaction. 
“ Western Aboriginal Establishment, 
Tholor, 2 6th February , 1842. 
“ Sir, — I have the honour to report that on the afternoon of 
the 24th instant, two aboriginal natives, named Pwe-bin-gan-nai, 
Calangamite, returned to this encampment, which they had left 
with their families on the 22nd, and reported ‘ that late on the 
previous evening, while they with their wives, two other females, 
and two children, were asleep at a tea-tree scrub, called One-one- 
derang, a party of eight white people on horseback surrounded 
them, dismounted, and fired upon them with pistols ; that three 
women and a child had been thus killed, and the other female so 
severely wounded as to be unable to stand or be removed by 
them;’ they had saved themselves and the child, named ‘Uni- 
