Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, 1830-1840 - Page 164
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to fetch down to the sawyers who were there at work about a mile off, this was of course objected to, but she found means to get out of at the back door, crept along on all fours by the fences and by a cart track found her way to the sawyers, who immediately ran down with their firearms. When nearly half way down, thinking that the Blacks might finally overpower Mr Jones and his wife, they fired off their guns, and when the Aborigines heard the reports, they made a hasty retreat, but not until they had robbed the unmarried Jones' hut at the opposite side of the Jordan of almost everything valuable in it.
Before the arrival of the Sawyers the tribe was on the opposite banks, only the Chief was on this side. he kept threatening Mr Jones and Mrs Jones, exclaiming "Fire you white cowards - fire you white -." Had the guns been so discharged a rush would immediately been made. Meanwhile the Chief cut a number of capers, and