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Tribe. The number of Blacks at this period on Waterhouse was five viz - 3 men and 2 women. On the 28th of the same month, pursuant to orders received from the Civil Commandant at Launceston the three male natives were forwarded to the Establishment at Gun carriage.

On the 4th November having again perceived a smoke which which seemed to issue from a Native fire in the neighbourhood of Forster's River, I commenced pursuit, accompanied by two female Blacks, and a European belonging to the Crew. For two days successively I caused larger fires to be made on suitable eminences under the impression that such an artifice might operate as a snare to induce the strangers to believe that the fires belonged to some of their own countrymen. On the 18th perceiving a high huge smoke, I ascended a high hill

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