Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, 1830-1840 - Page 17
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highest injustice, by his own hearing, in keeping possession of his farms, and ought to surrender them for the benefit of the native proprietors, and if it was by him considered murder and oppression to repel the repeated and barbarous attacks of the Blacks, he could not in justice claim any protection from the government in case he himself or his property should be attacked. He was therefore advised to leave a country, where his property was so unjustly and oppressively acquired, and held upon so precarious a tenure and where every one must be in constant danger of that which was accounted murder on one side could not be deemed so on the other. But as Mr Gregson was deaf to all insinuations of this nature, he kept fast what he had [indecipherable] and good the saying that it is easier for a Cable to go through a needle's eye than a rich man enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Mr Gregson's practice and theory were are of a cast widely different [indecipherable]
[margin note : Cable not Camel Cable [indecipherable]
It is not my intention to introduce subject observ any thing in the narrative I am about to present to the public with which the English reader must be sufficiently acquainted from a number of printed statements which that have from time been published on the advantages this Colony derives from its soil, climate,