The Lost Tasmanian Race
by James Bonwick (9781458928719)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE RACE UNDER BRITISH RULE. 19 THE RACE UNDER BRITISH RULE. Whatever- sorrows arose from the mixture of Whites and Blacks in the little island, it cannot be affirmed that Government was ignorant of the usual effects of such an intercourse, nor unmindful of the duty incumbent on the State to protect the aboriginal inhabitants. Warned by the consequences of such neglect on the mainland of New Holland, and shocked at the cries reaching England from the shores of New South Wales, Lord Hobart, then Secretary for the Colonies, sent this despatch to Captain Collins, when undertaking, at the close of 1803, to form a settlement on the banks of the Derwent. " You are to endeavour," wrote he, "by every means in your power, to open an intercourse with the Natives, and to conciliate their good-will, enjoining all parties under your government to live in amity and kindness with them; and if any person shall exercise any acts of violence against them, or shall wantonly give them any interruption in the exercise of their several occupations, you are to cause such offender to be brought to punishment, according to the degree of the offence." Bat before the first Governor of Van Diemen's Land established his quarters at Hobart Town, the unhappy collision between the Whites and the Blacks had taken place by the river Derwent. A party had been sent down from Sydney just before the arrival of Collins from the abortive attempt to settle Port Phillip. Camping at Restdoicn, afterwards liisdon, five miles from Hobart, it was there, early in 1804, that the unfortunate event took place that ushers in the sad story of the " Black War." A: little tide creek flows into the Derwent, not far from the Eisdon farm. The sandstone ranges rapidly ascend from the water's edge, while vast masses of pals...

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