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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.

  

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