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EFFECTS OF KINDNESS 
Adelaide, or to any of the more northern stations. 
Another case occurred about the same time, and at 
the same station, where an intelligent and well- 
conducted native, belonging to Moorunde, was sent 
by a gentleman at the Murray to a surgeon, living 
about sixty miles off, with a letter, and for medicines. 
The native upon reaching this station, which he had 
to pass, was assaulted and opposed by a man, armed 
with a musket, and if not fired at, (which he 
said he was,) was at least intimidated, and driven 
back, and prevented from going for the medicines 
for the individual who was ill. I myself knew the 
native who was sent, to be one of the most orderly 
and well-conducted men we had at the Murray ; in 
fact he had frequently, at different times, been living 
with me as an attache to the police force. 
In the second place, I may state, that during the 
time I have held office at Moorunde, I have fre- 
quently visited on the most friendly terms, and 
almost alone, the most distant and hostile tribes, 
where so short a time before even large and well- 
armed bodies of Europeans could not pass uninter- 
rupted or in safety. Many of those very natives, 
who had been concerned in affrays or aggressions, 
have since travelled hundreds of miles and encoun- 
tered hunger and thirst and fatigue, to visit a white 
man’s station in peace, and on friendly terms. 
Thirdly, I may observe, that ever since I went to 
the Murray, instead of shewing signs of enmity or 
hostility, the natives have acted in the most kind 
