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Economy 8
II Collins

"natives could be detected in the act of robbing the settlers, to hang
"one of them in chains upon a tree near the spot as a terror to
"the others. Could it have been foreseen, that this was their natural
"temper, it would have been wiser to have kept them at a distance,
"and in fear, which might have been effective without so much of
"the severity which their conduct has sometimes compelled him to
exercise towards them. But the kindness which has been shewn
"them, and the familiar intercourse with the white people in
"which they had been indulged, tended only to make them
acquainted with those concerns in which they were the most
"will vulnerable, and brought on all the evils which they suffered
"from them". —

7 P.46 August 1797. "Ben-nil-long .... was now observed to have
"become so fond of drinking, that, whenever invited by any of the
"officers to their houses, he was eager to be intoxicated, and in that
"state was so savage and violent as to be capable of any mischief.
"On such occasions he amused himself with annoying the women
"and insulting the men, who, from fear of offending his white
"friends, spared those notices of his conduct which he so often
"merited, & which sooner or later he would certainly meet with." —

8 p.56 October 1797 "On the 31st, an open boat arrived from the Hawkesbury,
"with a cargo of Indian corn, having been boarded in her passage
"down by a party of natives in canoes. Assuming an appearance of
"friendship, they were suffered to come into the boat, when, watching an
"opportunity, they threw off the mask, & made an attempt to seize
"the small arms. This occasioned a struggle, in which the boat's
"crew prevailed, but not before some of these unexpected pirates had
"paid for their rashness with their lives. —

"It was now discovered, that a boat belonging to a settler, which
"had been for some time missing, and was supposed to have been
"driven out to sea and lost with her crew & cargo of Indian corn,
"had actually been taken by the natives in the river, after murdering
"the men who were in her. The board, on searching, was afterwards
"found in the possession of some of these people. —

"This was so novel a circumstance that it could scarcely be
"credited; but it was no less true; & there was but little doubt, that
"the white people who had been living amongst them had been
"the unseen instigators of this mischief mischief."

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	116	Main Headings	panopticon versus new south wales
Folio number	065	Info in main headings field	economy ii collins
Image	001	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d8
Penner	john herbert koe	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	37598
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