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kindness and good feeling that have been exhibited 
towards them on the part of a large proportion of 
the colonists of Australia. It is in the hope that 
this good feeling may be promoted and strengthened 
that I have been led to enter into the details of the 
preceding pages. In bringing before the public 
instances of a contrary conduct or feeling, I by 
no means wish to lead to the impression that such 
are now of very frequent or general occurrence, 
and I trust my motives may not be misunder- 
stood. My sole, my only wish has been to 
bring about an improvement in the terms of in- 
tercourse, which subsists between the settlers and 
the Aborigines. Whilst advocating the cause of 
the latter, I am not insensible to the claims of the 
former, who leaving their native country and their 
friends, cheerfully encounter the inconveniences, 
toils, privations, and dangers which are necessarily 
attendant upon founding new homes in the remote 
and trackless wilds of other climes. Strongly im- 
pressed with the advantages, and the necessity of 
colonization, I am only anxious to mitigate its con- 
comitant evils, and by effecting an amelioration in 
the treatment and circumstances of the Aborigines, 
point out the means of rendering the residence or 
pursuits of the settler among an uncivilized com- 
munity, less precarious, and less hazardous than 
they have been. My object has been to shew the 
result, I may almost say, the necessary result of 
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