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Notwithstanding the active exertions of Parties sent in quest of the Blacks the atrocities committed by them were daily increasing. The Lieutenant Governor therefore [indecipherable] a notice to be inserted in the Gazette of the 7th March 1829 advertising for some competent man for the purpose of promoting a friendly intercourse with the Native Tribes. As usual on such occasions a number of candidates applied for the situation, but the choice fell upon Mr G. A. Robinson. It appears that there at the time resided a tame tribe resided were on Brunie Island and it was intended to avail ourselves of their Services with respect to the other tribes as soon as a more perfect knowledge of their language could be acquired. It would however require sometime before operations would commence, and hence it was found necessary to strengthen the armed parties in the interior, and send out more troops.

Parties were not now sent into all the Districts, but they affected little good as for

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