Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, 1830-1840 - Page 49
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[Page 49]
In my introduction I have loosely hinted at numerous sources of information with which I have been favoured. Having received permission to [indecipherable]. I have been favoured, and for the further consideration of which is to follow I shall give a more distinct account of the official documents I have consulted.
It is not without surprise that I found not a single record of any thing which has occurred in the Colony relative to the Aborigines previously to 1824. It was only after the arrival of Sir George Arthur as Lieutenant Governor that we observe any thing like regularity and order in the public departments. It was with equal surprise that I observed not less than thirteen of the largest Octavos, closely written, on the subject of the Aborigines. No 1 - alone containing upwards of one thousand pages of Coroners' Inquests held on white men murdered by the Blacks, and other outrages committed by them. To show the reader the caution I have used, and that I have not taken any thing upon trust, I shall [indecipherable] a specimen here only furnish the contents of [indecipherable] volume.
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