Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, 1830-1840 - Page 203
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some of Mr Batman's guns, blankets, Sheep Shears, Knives, razors, tea, and sugar, etc: The Blacks had robbed Mr Batman's house Break o' Day Plains the day before, when that active leader was engaged in the Line. [indecipherable] had by this time left the mission and returned to Macquarie Harbour whence he was forwarded to Hobart Town. It must attentively borne in mind that the capture of the thirteen above Natives was affected at the very time the Line was out, and consequent upon the grand manoeuvre. Before then the Mission had only succeeded in taking a few stragglers here and there. Mr Robinson went twice to the islands in the straits to rescue eighteen females from the sealers, [indecipherable] it is represented treated the poor creatures with great cruelty. This closed the transactions of 1830.
In 1831 the Stony Creek tribe to the number of twenty submitted - seventeen men and three females. Mr Robinson was present on that occasion, with McGeary, Willliam Stanfield, Joseph McLean and Joseph Platt.