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On our way we called at the Aboriginal Station on the 
River Avon, where we saw eighty-five natives. 
These are under the care of the Board for the Protection 
of Aborigines, and their healthy and cheerful appearance, 
their cleanliness, and the condition of the station as a 
whole, which, with its pretty flower and fruit gardens, is 
an oasis in this otherwise unoccupied district, made a 
favorable impression on all the visitors. The Super¬ 
intendent was very active in pointing out the improve¬ 
ments which had been made ; and we are convinced that 
the Board has in Mr. Hagenauer a most valuable officer. 
The education of the natives is carefully watched by him ; 
his assistants, we are sure, are earnest in their efforts to 
improve and elevate the young, and to lead them in right 
paths; and what we saw of the results of the children’s 
skill in various employments leads us to hope that ere 
long such establishments as this at Lake Wellington will 
not be required. The natives as they grow up will be 
employed by the whites, and they will carry to new 
situations the discipline and self-control which such unsel¬ 
fish laborers as Mr. Hagenauer are endeavoring to incul¬ 
cate. We were much pleased with the general appearance 
of this well-conducted establishment. 
At 4 o’clock we arrived at Eagle Point, where we 
stopped for a few minutes in order to get a view of the 
mountains on the north. 
Bairnsdale was reached at 5.30 p.m. 
We spent the greater part of Monday the 2nd February 
in examining the country around Bairnsdale. It is flat, 
but not uninteresting, as there arc here some geological 
formations of the same character as those which occur 
near Melbourne and at Geelong. 
Here, and at every other place at which we stopped, 
