Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, 1830-1840 - Page 163
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special constables, the country was so overrun 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 Aboriginies I have alluded to Tupelanta who lost his arm by in a vermin trap. This man's mishap was related in the "Colonial Times" of the 30th April 1830, under the head of "Aborigines" in the following manner. #
I have also mentioned in the list of atrocities committed in 1825 that the Aborigines attacked Mr Robert Joh Jones' hut in the "Four Square Gallows", threatening to put Mrs Jones into the b-g river. I cannot pass over in silence the heroic conduct on that occasion of Sarah Bellinger, a little girl, seven years of age, at the time. Mrs 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 through and through the thigh, he however would not let go the dog, and was cured in a very short time. margin]