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effects of different systems, that have been adopted 
towards them, to endeavour to recommend the best, 
I must, even at the risk of being deemed egotistical, 
point out some of the important and beneficial 
results that accrued at Moorunde. 
In the first place, I may state that the dread of 
settling upon the Murray, has so far given place to 
confidence, that from Wellington (near the Lake), 
to beyond the Great South Bend, a distance of more 
than 100 miles, the whole line of river is now settled 
and occupied by stock, where, in 1841, there was 
not a single European, a herd of cattle, or a flock of 
sheep ; nay, the very natives who were so much 
feared then, are looked upon now as an additional 
inducement to locate, since the services of the boys 
or young men, save in great measure the expense of 
European servants. There are few residents on the 
Murray, who do not employ one or more of these 
people, and at many stations, I have known the 
sheep or cattle, partially, and in some instances, 
wholly attended to by them. 
For three years I was resident at Moorunde, and 
during the whole of that time, up to November, 1844, 
not a single case of serious aggression, either on the 
persons or property of Europeans had ever occurred, 
and but very few offences even of a minor character. 
The only crime of any importance that was com- 
mitted in my neighbourhood, was at a sheep station, 
about 25 miles to the westward, where some few sheep 
were stolen, by a tribe of natives during the absence 
