From This And Other Data, Governor Phillip Estimated The Population Between Botany Bay And Broken Bay Inclusive, At 1500." - Aboriginal Protection Society's Report, May 1839, P. 13.

In Report of the same Society for July 1839, page 71, Mr. Threlkeld says - "Of one large tribe in the interior four years ago there were 164 persons - there are now only three individuals alive!!"]

[Note 101: "The whole eastern country, once thickly peopled, may now be said to be entirely abandoned to the whites, with the exception of some scattered families in one part, and of a few straggling individuals in another; and these once so high spirited, so jealous of their independence and liberty, now treated with contempt and ridicule even by the lowest of the Europeans; degraded, subdued, confused, awkward, and distrustful, ill concealing emotions of anger, scorn, and revenge - emaciated and covered with filthy rags; - these native lords of the soil, more like spectres of the past than living men, are dragging on a melancholy existence to a yet more melancholy doom." - STRZELECHI'S N. S. WALES, p.350.]

It is here that the native should be seen to be appreciated, in his native wilds, where he alone is lord of all around him. To those who have thus come into communication with the Aborigines, and have witnessed the fearless courage and proud demeanour which a life of independence and freedom always inspires, it cannot but be a matter of deep regret to see them gradually dwindling away and disappearing before the presence of Europeans.

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