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70 Cape of Good Hope and Tasmania. Kangaroo flesh was, for many years, commonly sold, and its provision became a regular occupation; and this again caused distress among the natives, for want of their ordinary food and clothing which those animals had supplied. Those families whose hunting grounds had been occupied by the settlers, intruded on the territory of others, and contests, retaliations, and permanent feuds were consequent among them. Kangaroo meat sold for 10d. when beef was 1s. 6d., and mutton 1s. 5d. the pound; bread was at one time 2s. 2d. the 41b. loaf. The number of vessels which arrived at Fremantle made proper mooring and accommodation for them and their cargoes impossible, and the loss of many, in consequence, gave the port a bad name; it ceased to be a place of call for those trading to other ports, and shipowners in England became shy of sending vessels there. These unhappy conditions tended not only to check immigration, as did the price of land (which had been raised to five shillings an acre), but led to the emigration of such as Mr. Henty and many others, who sought elsewhere a better market for their capital and labor, but who might have been of the greatest service to the infant Colony. Mr. Henty had taken up 62,036 acres of land and introduced with his two brothers, 12 laborers and mechanics, 6 women, and 15 children, with much valuable stock, as a first instalment on his estate. Mr. Peel had claimed land on account of 170, and Colonel Latour on account of 85 persons introduced by themselves.

Governor Stirling had commenced by making settlements at Augusta, Leschenault, Kelmscott, Guildford, and in the Avon Valley. He fixed on the North, instead of the South side of Perth water, as bad been originally intended, for the site of the Capital of the