Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, 1830-1840 - Page 117
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for his own tribe. He was subsequently captured, and on being questioned he frankly confessed that he had invariably led the parties astray when on the track of his country men. However, nothing is more certain than that he might, if he had so thought proper, have led the white parties into ambush and from which they could not have extricated themselves. Poor Mungo is now no longer more; when removed to the depot in the straits, he either fell a victim to some disease or pined away.
I now resume the subject of the hostilities between the Whites and the Aborigines. The year 1827 was pregnant with mischief and murders committed by the Native tribes on the Colonists free and bound. Numerous communications from Magistrates to the local Government sufficiently explained the danger to which the settlers and their servants were exposed. - Addresses joined in from Launceston and the Districts praying for protection, but it was not