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Aboriginal Tribes, it it is impossible to look at the other side of the picture without feeling the most sensible grief. In the public reports records I find two despatches from Lieutenant Darling to the Aboriginal Committee wherein numerous deaths are reported vizy -

1833

5th June One Male infant.
8th   "  The child's mother.
14th  " The child's father
15th  " One male adult 
  One Female do
19th  " One Female do
25th  " One Male do
14th July One Female infant
19th " One Male adult 
20th " One Male do
27th " One Male do
28th  " One Male do
1st August  One male do 
3rd " One male do
4th  " One Female do
  One male do
9th " One Male infant 
12th " One Male adult 
  One Female do
16th  " One Male do
24th  " One Male do 
14th September One Female do

The mortality of the Blacks in the island in the Straits is truly dreadful - The number altogether captured amounted to about Two Hundred and Fifty, and by a repo
 

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