Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, 1830-1840 - Page 241
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I have with the utmost care and anxiety endeavoured to trace that the cause of that rancorous hostility, which for years past, the Aborigines evinced towards the white colonists. I am not in possession of proofs to fasten upon the white inhabitants any particular act of cruelty on their part towards their benighted brethren. It ought however to be recollected that the Aborigines had no way to of communicating their grievances, many of them may have been destroyed by ignorant and vindictive servants and others. Indeed if implicit credit could be given to the boasts of several unprincipled persons they have formerly despatched a number of the Aborigines without any justifiable provocation, and it is scarcely possible not to suppose that the black natives must have had some cause for pursuing the whites with such unrelenting perseverance.