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that a few Parties, each consisting of 10 or 12 active men, should look for the Native Fires at night - cautiously approach them and wait with patience until dawn of day, when many of the poor creatures might, thus, be captured.

I am decidedly of opinion that by acting in this  manner for a month or two, we should get great numbers of them in our hands.

If His Excellency should think this mode preferable to that of "drawing the covers" I shall most willingly proceed to the Blue Hills, - Eastern Marshes, - Maloney's Lagoon, and the Upper Macquarie etc - to superintend the movements of several Parties, and see that their operations are carried on with all possible humanity.

But to rid the country of this Scourge, a considerable number of Troops will be required. -

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