Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, 1830-1840 - Page 162
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special constables, the country was so over run with armed bands so that bushranging, cattle, and Sheep stealing, were scarcely heard of.
In the catalogue of outrages named as having been perpetrated in four years in the Oatlands district by the Aborigines I have alluded to Tupelanta who lost his arm by a vermin trap. This man's mishap was related in the "Colonial"
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[Note: the remainder of this paragraph and half of the following paragraph is indecipherable, as it is covered by a newspaper clipping]
a little girl, seven years of age, at the time. Mr Jones and Mrs Jones, and the girl, were the only persons at home when the hostile Aborigines made their appearance. Mr Jones seized hold of a gun, and Mrs Jones did the same making a bold face. Sarah Bellinger begged permission to go up into
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# From the facility with which the Aborigines cured wounds not mortal, it may reasonably be supposed that they were acquainted with the virtues of certain herbs. A native stole a ferocious dog of on the chain which bit him on [indecipherable] through the thigh, he however would not let go the dog, and he was cured in [indecipherable]