Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, 1830-1840 - Page 189
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localities of the island. Some of the forces would have to cross rugged mountains, when others had to pass over plains and vallies. It therefore required great skill in so arranging details that one unbroken line might be preserved.
At the onset the forces did not join, in but the various divisions took a wide range, gradually closing in, and firing occasionally in the direction of towards the East Bay [indecipherable]. The Blacks of course retreated to that portion of the island where they found every thing quiet.
(Here insert the Gazette).
On the following 18th October appeared an official communication in the Gazette purporting to supply an account of some adventure which a convict of the name of Savage said he had encountered. He told a plausible tale, and was believed, but it has since been proved to demonstration that the whole tale of