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 CHAPTER V.

N the first discovery of the Gold Fields, the colony, till then in an infant state, grew so greatly into note and importance from the immense influx of emigrants rushing to the new-found El Dorado, that with all justice it may be said to have overgrown itself, and had not the means within its grasp to check either the disorders likely to arise from such a mixed community of adventurous spirits flocking to its shores, or to place within bounds those whom,