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RESULTS OF KINDNESS. 
through so many other tribes on their line of route, 
and of hunger and other privations in prosecuting 
them, the messengers are but ill requited; the 
good feeling they displayed, or the fatigues they 
went through, being recompensed only by the 
present of a small blanket and a few pounds of flour. 
With these facts before us can we say that these 
natives are a ferocious, irreclaimable set of savages, 
and destitute of all the better attributes of hu- 
manity ? yet are they often so maligned. The very 
natives, who have now acted in such a friendly 
manner, and rendered such important services to 
Europeans, are the same natives who were engaged 
in the plundering of their property, and taking 
away their lives when coming over land with stock. 
Such is the change which has been effected by kind- 
ness and conciliation instead of aggression and 
injury ; and such, I think, I may in fairness argue, 
would generally be the result if similar means were 
more frequently resorted to. 
As yet Moorunde is the only place where the 
experiment has been made of assembling the natives 
and giving food to them ; but as far as it has been 
tried, it has been proved to be eminently successful. 
I am aware that the system is highly disapproved 
of by many of the colonists, and the general feeling 
among them appears to be that nothing should be 
given where nothing is received^ or in other words, 
that a native should never have any thing given 
to him until he does some work for it. I still 
