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208 over the best ground they can find from one place to another; and the Natives, thus knowing their customary haunts, can easily avoid them.

"4th. That the men forming the parties have been promised indulgence at the expiration of a certain time, without the additional condition that none would be granted unless the Natives were fallen in with, captured, or otherwise disposed of.

"5th. The imposition and deceit practised by prisoner leaders, wishing to stand well, and be called good fellows by their fellow-prisoners, and thus indulge the parties in idleness, and stifle all complaints.

"6th. (But which I advance with great caution.) Black Tom and the other Blacks accompanying the expedition not being willing to bring the parties to where the Natives would be likely to be.

"7th. The imposition practised, to screen idleness, to hold out that the Aborigines are men of superior cunning, and amazingly swift runners, whereas the facts show to the contrary."

The enemies of Jorgenson, who admitted his facility of composition, and his ability to find fault with others, pointed triumphantly to the meagre results of such lofty talk and great promise of achievements. He could reprove others for their absurd methods, but failed in catching the Blacks himself. He is descriptive to prosiness of his own performances, and tells his chief how he got through a dense scrub. "My little band of fifteen," says he, "now entered a thick and sometimes nearly an impervious scrub. We were now obliged to march one after the other, taking the lead in succession, clearing away the scrub before us, and thus preserved our strength."

Occasionally the dulness of ordinary reports is relieved by a play of pleasantry in the pages of Jorgenson. In a certain part of the Bush, on the banks of the Jordan, he seems to have fallen upon a Welsh colony, as he thought. Surely the worthy Welshman, who wrote to prove the origin of the Hebrews from his own ancestors, would have felt an interest in the following geographical discovery by the Danish leader:—

"Within a very narrow circumference all the farmers and settlers are named 'Jones,' although of different families, and not related to each other; viz, the married Jones, residing in Four Square Gallows, whose Christian name is Robert; the