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rid the settled parts of Colony of the murderous inroads of the Blacks, and in doing so, he is very certainly in consistent. When speaking of some white men who had been killed at Cape Grim by the Natives he observed in his despatch that he had investigated into the affair, and found the whites were entirely to blame. But how or in what manner the investigation was conducted, and what evidence was could be adduced he does not say. The Chief Commissioner of the Van Diemen's Land Company Mr Curr, and Mr Ronald Gunn, the Police Magistrate of Circular Head, are were silent on the subject.
It was the practice of the conciliatory mission not to travel with firearms. Upon one occasion Alexander McKay came at the Hampshire Hills in contact with a tribe of Blacks who and fiercely assailed him, knocked him down, and had nearly killed him. Luckily for McKay he had concealed by him a pair of pocket pistols and in the scuffle succeeded in killing four Blacks. This Mr Robinson called "very imprudent and barbarous on the part of McKay". At that time the Government had
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