Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, 1830-1840 - Page 44
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and now in our isolated stock hut or when roaming over the wilderness, we can secure a light whenever it is required.
The black population of V.D Land has never been correctly ascertained, but when the colony has first established, it might without exaggeration be computed at from two to three thousand. From the surveying vessels which came down from Sydney to the Derwent and Tamar in 1801 and 1802 before any settlement was formed before any settlement was formed, competent persons were landed, and the tribes some in great numbers, exhibited no signs of fear or distrust, in their intercourse with the Europeans, altho' they evinced little curiosity and admiration at anything they saw passing, and hence some have called them
As to liberty, as has been stated elsewhere by me I would not give myself the slightest concern or trouble about it reflecting on the transitory state of man's duration shortness of human life, instability of fortune and the uncertainty of all transitory enjoyments, i would rather rub on in as quick a manner as possible, but I also reflect that the end of the