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of Australian Exploration will hand down the memory of the spontaneous kindness of the blacks on Coopers Creek towards King the survivor of
the Burke and Wills party. The (?narrative?) of James Morrill, the ship-
wrecked mariner who for 17 years depended on the kindness of
a Northern tribe is in the archives of Queensland. I can truly
bear witness that in travelling with them I have been treated
with a refined politeness and consideration which astonished
me. Two of my intimate frineds owed the preservation of
their lives to aboriginies; one of them was found in the Bush
exhausted and ready to perish with hunger; they carried him to
a station; the other a young man when pursued by hostile
blacks was resuced by the fidelity and skilful strategies of
one to whom he had shown kindness. Scarcely a flood occurs
but some white person is rescued from drowning by a
black. I have met with more than one person (where?)
an aboriginal has saved from death by sucking from their
wounds the poison of a snake: and others who have been
defended from hostile black men by the faithfulness of those
who were attached to them.
The black in the Macleay flood> One looks with mixed feelings on the enlistment of
aborigines from the Murray and elsewhere to form a police force in the North. (?It proves of all?
??their capability of faithful attachment to the white man?)
Colonists who have spent years in New Zealand and in this
Country say that in (tractableness?) and in gratitude and
attachment to white people who befriend them, the Murri of Australia
far surpasses the Maori of New Zealand.