was truly interesting. They are delighted at the idea of proceeding to
Great Island, where they will enjoy peace and plenty uninterrupted. The
great susceptibility which they one and all evinced of the influence of
music when the band struck up, which Colonel Logan had purposely ordered
down, clearly showed the numerous spectators the power of this agent of
communication, even in the savage breast. After, in the greatest good
humour, and with an evident desire to make themselves agreeable, going
through various feats of their wonderful dexterity, they proceeded on
board the Swan River packet, until the Tamar is ready to proceed with them
to Great Island. The women were frightfully ornamented with human bones
hung round them in various fantastic forms, even to the rows of teeth and
skulls. Some of these were the remains of enemies, and white persons whom
they had killed, but more as the mementos of the affection which they bore
to the husband or children whom they had lost. They each carried a handful
of spears. They wore the usual kangaroo skin cloak thrown over the back or
shoulder, and thickly smeared with red ochre and grease. Their hair as
well as skin was also thickly coated with the same, the hair being
carefully dressed or formed by its help into neat little knots or globules
all round the head. One of the men has lost his arm, being the same who
about two years ago was caught in the rat trap that happened to be set in
the flour cask in Mr. Adey's stock-keeper's hut. They surrendered to Mr.
Robinson (who, however, very prudently did not take possession of them)
six stand of arms, which they had taken from the whites they had murdered,
or stolen from the huts. Three of them were ready loaded, and the muzzles
carefully stuffed with pieces of blanket, and one is the same which was so
recently borne by the late unfortunate Mr. Parker. The inside of several
of their bark huts, which Mr. Robinson entered, was very ingeniously
ornamented with rude delineations of kangaroos, emus, and other animals.
The removal of these blacks will be of essential benefit both to
themselves and the colony. The large tracts of pasture that have so long