Includes part of the Instructions to Governor Phillip "... the aboriginals of the country were to be conciliated and protected" p. 200, 206; describes the environment as "... sparsely inhabited by tribes of aboriginals, treacherous, primitive and absolutely
unacquainted with any form of agriculture or housing construction" p. 216; states that of the 65 deaths in the first year of settlement "... four had been killed by the natives" p. 231; due to the food shortage Phillip "... had to hide the fact of distress from the aboriginals lest they take advantage of the weakness of the people" p. 237; mentions that absconders from the colony were sometimes "... killed by aboriginals" p. 265; mentions, when a man was hanged, the body provoked "... terror among the natives, who abandoned the hunting-ground for ever" p. 330; lists possible disasters to the colony "... attacks of the natives" p. 349.
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