430 ATTEMPTS AT IMPROVEMENT 
In Western Australia a sum of money is also 
devoted annualty towards defraying the salaries of 
two Protectors, and other expenses connected with 
the department. 
I am not, however, personally aware, vhat the 
particular arrangements may be that have latterly 
been adopted in either of these colonies, for the 
benefit of the Aborigines, or the degree of success 
which may have attended them. I believe, how- 
ever, that in both places, more has been attempted, 
within the last three or four years, than had ever 
been the case before. What the eventual result 
may be it is impossible to tell, but with the past 
experience before me, I cannot persuade myself, 
that any real or permanent good will ever be 
effected, until the influence exercised over the 
young by the adults be destroyed, and they are 
freed from the contagious effects of their example, 
and until means are afforded them of supporting 
themselves in a new condition, and of forming those 
social ties and connections in an improved state, 
which they must otherwise be driven to seek for 
among the savage hordes, from which it is 
attempted to reclaim them. 
In South Australia many efforts have been made 
in behalf of the Aborigines, and an anxious desire 
for their welfare has frequently been exhibited on 
the part of the Government, and of many of the 
colonists. For the year 1845 the sum of £820. is 
