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the natives would rob and murder them, and if 
otherwise, that they would commit wholesale 
butchery upon the natives. It was to remedy this 
melancholy state of affairs, that the Government 
station at Moorunde was established, and his Excel- 
lency the Governor, did me the honour to confide 
to my management the carrying out the objects 
proposed. 
The instructions I received, and the principles 
upon which I attempted to carry out those instruc- 
tions, were exclusively those of conciliation and 
kindness. I made it my duty to go personally 
amongst the most distant and hostile tribes, to ex- 
plain to them that the white man wished to live 
with them, upon terms of amity, and that instead of 
injuring, he was most anxious to hold out the olive 
branch of peace. 
By the liberality of the Government, I had it in 
my power once every month, to assemble all the 
natives who chose to collect, whether from near or 
more distant tribes, and to give to each a sufficiency 
of flour to last for about two days, and once in the 
year, at the commencement of winter, to bestow 
upon some few of the most deserving, blankets as a 
protection against the cold. 
How far success attended the system that was 
adopted, or the exertions that were made, it is 
scarcely perhaps becoming in me to say : where the 
object, however, is simply and solely to try to 
benefit the Aborigines, and by contrasting the 
