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Again - "At the time some of the most several songs of the most popular songs of the hostile Aborigines consisted in relation of the outrages committed by Blacks on the Whites, in which they repeat in minute details their predatory proceedings, such as taking away fire, arms, tea, sugar, etc, and kneading flour into bread"
In another despatch dated Cape Portland : Aug 6 1837 Mr Robinson observes that "the Aborigines who frequent these parts roam over a large extract of country namely - from the East Banks of the Tamar to beyond George's River, and over a distance from fifteen to twenty miles. This country is particularly adapted for the purposes of the natives, it being a level tract of land, and abounding in game etc: from whence they are in the habit of penetrating into the settled Districts to commit their usual outrages"
Nothing can be more plain than if the blacks had the Blacks
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