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pursued their forming former occupations, and confined themselves to their vast and extensive hunting grounds they would have remained unmolested from the whites. In addition to which they were habib some of the tribes who at certain seasons of the year need to visit the Sea coast for shell fish and eggs without being were left uninterrupted. By Mr Robinson's own confession some of them were in the habit of making periodical predatory excursions into the settled districts, after having remained in quiet beyond certain limits. 

I can assign a far different reason for the depredations committed by the Aborigines than that those what which has been so often and so boldly asserted. The fact is that from an over anxiety to civilize them, and promote a friendly intercourse, the Government and the Colonists taught them how to relish our luxuries: was they were amply

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