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Rh cunning, but little manly sense, and they are otherwise corrupted."

As the wild people were caught, they were transferred to the nearest gaol. Some were at first taken to Mr. G. A. Robinson at Bruni; or, under his care, to the establishment at Newtown, a couple of miles out of Hobart Town. Mr. Stirling was in charge of the latter asylum, during the journey of his chief to Port Davey. Believing himself able to bring in some people by means of the women, whose good opinion he believed he had secured, he wrote on March 14th, 1830, offering his service: "I feel," said he, "a confidence on behalf of the females who would accompany me, to cancel any doubts or apprehensions as connected with my own personal safety." His offer was declined.

Such an establishment was soon found of little use, as numbers came in, and numbers went out again. An island home Was the desideratum. Long before, the English colonists had much trouble with the aboriginal Caribs of the West Indian St. Vincents. After a "Black War" there, a submission led to the project of banishment. Unwilling to forsake their own lovely native land, the Caribs again resisted; but in vain. Capture parties were appointed, and those secured were transported to the little island of Balisean, that had been meanwhile allotted for their reception. It is just possible that this scrap of Colonial History in the Olden times may have suggested the Tasmanian Island Depôt Scheme.

In spite of the success of some of the roving parties in capture, for 236 were secured by the end of 1832, it was felt that great destruction of life had taken place. Mr. Carr, manager then for the Van Diemen's Land Agricultural Company, calculated upon the effects of the "Five Pounds' Proclamation," as it was called, and said, "The Proclamation as usual will enjoin the sparing the defenceless, and that the people are not to be killed, but taken alive; and the "way in which it will be acted upon will be by killing nine for one taken." Some such feeling was evidently shared by the authorities; for a Government Notice, appearing on August 20th, 1830, bears upon the subject, and again utters a warning against cruelty.

"The Lieutenant-Governor," says the command, "has learned, with much regret that the Government Order of the 25th of February last, offering certain rewards for the capture of the