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[Page 161]

Outrages

to any use on board ship, they could be none; besides the active Field Police which is spread over the whole colony, would at all times prevent the convicts from passing to the Seaport towns. The poor fellows were by the confession afterwards of the Blacks, often killed, at a distance from their dwellings and

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I have already remarked that the armed roving parties were not very successful in capturing Bla any of the Blacks, but nevertheless the settlers derived great benefit from their exertions, for as many of them were Police Constables, and other sworn in

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