Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, 1830-1840 - Page 70
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Mr Cottrell's and Mr Batman's reports confine themselves entirely to relations of conciliation or capture. Mr Cottrell seems to have been the next in command to Mr Robinson, and was very indefatigable in his exertions in the bush. Both Mr Batman and Mr Cottrell were plain matter of fact men, but Mr Cottrell the correspondence of the latter gentleman is marked with much good sense.
The reports written by Mr Jorgen Jorgenson are very voluminous, and embrace every object which came within his view. This individual, I am informed, had performed two journies in the interior & western coast in 1826 and 1827 in the service of the Van Diemen's Land company. He was also employed for nearly two years in the bush by the government before he was, under Mr Anstey, appointed to take charge of the Oatlands Roving bands parties. He was therefore considered well calculated to direct the movements of the parties, and always in turns joined himself either in went out himself with either one or of them other bands parties. It appears that Mr Jorgenson carried with him ample writing materials and when resting any way where in the bush in a day towards evening, he at once penned down [indecipherable] the occurrences of the day, and the what observations he had to offer upon what he had seen.