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James Bonwick. The Last of the Tasmanians
The Last of the Tasmanians
Table of Contents
PREFACE
VOYAGERS TALES OF THE TASMANIANS
THE LAST OF THE TASMANIANS
CHAPTER II. THE BLACK WAR
CHAPTER III. CRUELTIES TO THE BLACKS
CHAPTER IV. OUTRAGES OF THE BLACKS
CHAPTER V. THE LINE
CHAPTER VI. CAPTURE PARTIES
CHAPTER VII. GEORGE AUGUSTUS ROBINSON, THE CONCILIATOR
CHAPTER VIII. FLINDERS ISLAND
CHAPTER IX. OYSTER COVE
CHAPTER X. THE SEALERS
CHAPTER XI. HALF-CASTES
CHAPTER XII. NATIVE RIGHTS
CHAPTER XIII. CIVILIZATION
CHAPTER XIV. DECLINE
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James Bonwick
Published by Good Press, 2020
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"He was a short, slight man, of middle age, with a countenance more expressive of benignity and intelligence, than of the ferocity or stupidity which generally characterised the other Natives; and his features were less flattened, or negro-like, than theirs. His face was blackened, and the top of his head was plastered with red earth. His hair was either naturally short and close, or had been rendered so by burning, and, although short and stiffly curled, they did not think it woolly. He was armed with two spears, very ill-made, of solid wood. No part of their dress attracted his attention, except the red silk handkerchiefs round their necks. Their fire-arms were to them neither objects of curiosity nor fear.
"This was the first man they had spoken with in Van Diemen's Land; and his frank and open deportment led them not only to form a favourable opinion of the dispositions of its inhabitants, but to conjecture that if a country was peopled in the usual numbers, he would not have been the only one they should have met. A circumstance which corroborated this supposition was that in the excursions made by Mr. Bass into the country, having seldom any society but his two dogs, he would have been no great object of dread to a people ignorant of the effects of firearms, and would certainly have been hailed by any one who might have seen him."
