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[Page 123]

These men (particularly Hopkins and Danvers) know every rood of bush from the Launceston Road to Oyster Bay - East and West - and from Hocker's Bottom to Constitution Hill North and South.

When the face of the country to the eastward of this District, and the cunning tricks of the Aborigines are considered, I owe I have some fears that their capture will be a work of more time than His Excellency expects.

I conceive that full three fourths of that extensive range of Country consists of Scrub and Defile nearly impenetrable, and the Native are accustomed, on the approach of danger, to throw themselves flat on the ground and crawl under dead wood etc. so that a party will frequently pass within a few yards of them, without being aware of their vicinity.  Upon reflection I would therefore beg leave to recommend to His Excellency

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