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fully in a variety of ways, and one party of young 
men collected and delivered to a firm in town five 
tons of mimosa bark up to December 1843. At 
the native location during the year 1842, three 
families of natives assisted by the school-children, 
had dug with the spade the ground, and had planted 
and reaped more than one acre of maize, one acre 
of potatoes, and half an acre of melons, besides 
preparing ground for the ensuing year. On the 
Murray River native shepherds and stock -keepers 
have hitherto been employed almost exclusively, and 
have been found to answer well. Most of the 
settlers in that district have one or more native 
youths constantly living at their houses. 
In concluding an account of the present state 
and prospects of the Aborigines and of the efforts 
hitherto made on their behalf, I may state that I 
am fully sensible that to put the schools upon a 
proper footing and to do away with the serious 
disadvantages I have pointed out as at present 
attending them, or to adopt effective means for as- 
sembling, feeding, or instructing the natives in their 
own respective districts would involve a much 
greater expenditure than South Australia has 
hitherto been able to afford from her own resources ; 
and I have therefore called attention to the subject, 
not for the purpose of censuring what it is impossible 
to remedy without means ; but in the sincere and 
earnest hope that an interest in behalf of a people 
who are generally much misrepresented, and who 
