Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, 1830-1840 - Page 60
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offered a reward of £5 for the capture of every Black of age Adult and £2 for a any child, and no doubt Mackay would have, on account of the jeopardy he had been placed in, obtained the reward for having so courageously resisted the hostile natives, but he through Mr Robinson's remonstrances he was deprived of that benefit, and only received £20 for four Aborigines whom he had captured alive.
Shortly after Mr Robinson as before told was placed in the same perilous situation, and had sufficient reason to repent of his temerity in facing the Blacks, without having at least pocket pistols concealed about him.
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The facts relating to the transaction are found in one of Mr Robinson's despatches to the government, and McGeary gives the following account of the affair. The female Walloa, who had led three tribes to Cape Grim there to exterminate the tribe of that place, seems to have acquired an unaccountable influence over all the Blacks, almost miraculous in this country, where women are made