Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, 1830-1840 - Page 65
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[Page 65]
look at the back before you begin this sheet.
The observations I shall have to offer on the above document will be brief. I feel happy that I should have seized the present moment for writing a connected narrative of Van Demien's Land. - As there is nothing upon record before 1824, and as the ephemeral productions which have appeared from rath time to time rather tend to perplex than otherwise, I have availed myself of every over opportunity of acquiring current information. [#] I have been able to make up the deficiency by journals kept for years [indecipherable] by individuals, and many are yet alive [indecipherable] arrived here, or were born in the colony, [indecipherable] its earlier progress. I have however been cautious on not receiving any thing upon the mere ipse dixit of any one but the journals although somewhat defaced by time, and written in no very [indecipherable] figures, I have paid attention to, provided the contents were corroborated by contemporaries.
I see no mention made in the records [indecipherable] McGeary's and Alexander McKay's reports and journals, so I suppose they must have in some shape or other, have merged in Mr J. A. Robinson's reports.
The Lieutenant Governor's minutes are [indecipherable] back of reports and letters, and His Excellency's