Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, 1830-1840 - Page 115
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The few instances I have here addressed will suffice for the present, as I proceed on to the transactions connected with hostile operations, several depositions on oath taken before Magistrates will further explain.
A few other instances connected with the character of the Blacks may not prove uninteresting. If you can succeeded in moving their risible faculties, I think little danger was to be apprehended from them. A Shepherd in the Hollow Tree bottom between Jericho and Jerusalem, laid down to sleep in a hot summer's day, placing his gun against a tree. The Aborigines happened to pass by, and made slily up to the Shepherd, and took away his Gun. They then commenced shouting, when the man arose terribly frightened, and in looking for his gun, which when he found had been seized he made a most ludicrous figure.
The tribe enjoyed his embarrassment and confusion when they saw him running here and there as a man out of his senses. The Blacks set up a loud laugh and suffered him to escape.