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Title: The History of Tasmania , Volume II (of 2)
Author: John West

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THE
HISTORY OF TASMANIA:
by
JOHN WEST,
Minister of St. John Square Chapel, Launceston.
VOLUME II,

Tasmania: Henry Dowling, Launceston. 1852.
Tasmania: Printed By J. S. Waddell, Launceston
Facsimile edition 1966

CONTENTS.--VOL. II.

THE ABORIGINES.
SECTION I. p. 1.
Tasman's account of the natives--Cook's--Labillardière's--Flinders'.
SECTION II. p. 6.
Conflict at Risdon--cruelty to natives--tribe visits Hobart Town--child-stealing.
SECTION III. p. 12.
Causes of conflict--Musquito--execution of blacks--unavailing attempts to civilise--ill-treatment by bushrangers--cruelty to the women--effects of civilization--the food destroyed--abduction of the women--natives not naturally cruel.
SECTION IV. p. 26.
Proclamation against them--forbidden to enter the colony--martial law proclaimed--captures--escape--efforts of Mr. Batman--commandoes.
SECTION V. p. 32.
Murders committed by natives--instances of female courage--odd expedients--difficulty of capture--humane efforts of Arthur--list of atrocities.
SECTION VI. p. 44.
Conciliation proposed by Mr. Robinson--project to drive them into Tasman's Peninsula--forces assembled--line of posts fixed--great preparations--martial law proclaimed--advance--line crossed by natives--Walpole's party--white man traced--plan unsuccessful.
SECTION VII. p. 55.
Mr. Robinson's efforts--his plan reasonable--well-timed--opinions of the press--aborigines' committee--proposal to destroy the natives--Robinson goes round the island--Sydney natives--captures--instances of intrepidity--murder of Captain Thomas--Robinson takes the murderers--rewards given to Mr. Robinson--further success.
SECTION VIII. p. 67.
Disposal of the natives--removal to Flinders' Island--opinions of Sir John Pedder--Backhouse's visit--Robinson's management--removal to New Holland--some executed.
SECTION IX. p. 71.
Rapid extinction--original number--cause of decline--clothing--change of habits--restraint--bad water--sight of Van Diemen's Land--notion of Strzelecki--brought back to Van Diemen's Land--Arthur's opinion of the natives.
SECTION X. p. 76.
Origin of the natives--consanguinity--stature--general appearance--families--infanticide--half-caste--tribes--huts--food--dress and ornaments--arms and implements--corrobories and dances--language--disposition--religious ideas--the sick--funeral--conclusion--right of occupation--native rights--exposure to robbers--necessity for protecting the whites--lamentable results of colonization--inevitable.

TRANSPORTATION.
SECTION I. p. 101.
Exile--Roman custom--abjuring the realm--Spaniards the first who transported--practice in the time of Elizabeth--James--Charles the second--James the second--George the first--America--kidnapping--America resists--numbers transported.
SECTION II. p. 106.
State of English gaols--Howard--labor bill.
SECTION III. p. 108.
Bentham's project--New South Wales occupied.
SECTION IV. p. 111.
Voyage--surgeon-superintendents--convict ship--treatment of women--abuses--systems of management--Dr. Reid--Cunningham--Browning--general safety of convict vessels--loss of the George the Third--the Neva--the Governor Phillip.
SECTION V. p. 123.
Early difficulties of convict management--assignment established--disposal of the prisoners.
SECTION VI. p. 129.
Origin of bushranging--Howe--his career.
SECTION VII. p. 138.
Habits of convict population--1824.
SECTION VIII. p. 143.
The colonies re-act on each other--N. S. Wales--state of Parramatta--rocks--allurements of transportation--Macquarie's views--wealth and claims of emancipists--Biggs's views--pardons--emancipists form associations--petition parliament--their alleged reformation--Bigge's commission--Macquarie's recall--character--Rev. S. Marsden.
SECTION IX. p. 172.
Bigge's recommendations--his reports--Macquarie Harbor--emigration proposed--demand for labor.
SECTION X. p. 186.
Land granted to settlers employing convicts--large immigration of capitalists.
SECTION XI. p. 188.
Assignment established in America--debarkation of prisoners--their identification--curious practice--law of assignment--transfer of servants.
SECTION XII. p. 194.
Escapes from Macquarie Harbor--Brady--executions--state of colony--causes of bushranging.
SECTION XIII. p. 214.
Macquarie Harbor--visit of Backhouse and Walker--seizure of the Cyprus--Frederic--Badger.
SECTION XIV. p. 222.
Escape of prisoners--seek for China--curious narrative--the Young Lachlan seized--penalty of escape.
SECTION XV. p. 228.
Arthur's principles of penal government--number reclaimable--Arthur's system--view of the real state of prisoners--representation of society--of transportation--idea of New South Wales at home--writings of Archbishop Whately--Mr. Secretary Stanley's "certain and severe" system--tickets-of-leave.
SECTION XVI. p. 240.
Disposal of mechanics and specials--convict clerks--wives of prisoners--Savary--Port Arthur--Boothe's system--Point Puer--young convicts.
SECTION XVII. p. 248.
Views of ministers--certain severe system--conduct of overseers--retaliation--executions--effects of immigration--colonial protests--curious contrast.
SECTION XVIII. p. 255.
Convict system of New South Wales--Governor Bourke--corporal punishment--Major Mudie--Watt--abuses--Burton's charge--its effect--Molesworth's motion.
SECTION XIX. p. 263.
Franklin's appointment--Maconochie's commission--his reports--his opinions--his system--board refute him--different sources of his system--Dr. Henderson's scheme.
SECTION XX. p. 274.
Remarks on Maconochie's system--partly erroneous--useful results of assignment--Franklin's opinions.
SECTION XXI. p. 278.
Sir Wm. Molesworth's committee--stoppage of transportation to New South Wales--Archbishop Wheately's opinions--Bourke's views--exaggerations--Captain Wood--remonstrance--new plan for Norfolk Island--Maconochie appointed commandant--his mark system--the birthday--the Governor Phillip seized--failure of his system--opinions of Sir G. Gipps--of Captain Forster.
SECTION XXII. p. 291.
Lord John Russell's plan--Sir Wm. Molesworth's proposal to anticipate the land fund--Mr. Innes's pamphlet--resolutions of the Commons--Captain Montagu's visit to England--assignment stopped--gangs formed--evils--Franklin's representations.
SECTION XXIII. p. 294.
Lord Stanley's probation system--effects at Norfolk Island--insurrection--murders--Major Childs--cruelties--Earl Grey's orders.
SECTION XXIV. p. 305.
System in Van Diemen's Land--large arrivals--incompetent officers--errors on which the system-was founded--Lord Stanley's defiance of the settlers--re-emigration--hiring dep?ts--representations of Forster--Hampton--Boyd--Fry--crimes increase--laxity of discipline--Mr. Bishton's views--North Australia--Mr. Latrobe--his representations--ticket system.
SECTION XXV. p. 318.
Treatment of female prisoners--their transportation a great evil--numbers--Sir G. Murray's scheme.
SECTION XXVI. p. 321.
Lord Stanley's directions for the disposal of women--Mrs. Bowden--married female prisoners.
SECTION XXVII. p. 323.
Views of transportation often governed by interest--old system--incompatible objects sought--frequent changes--every theory contradicted by results--Arthur's opinion--progress from 1830--capital expended--value of convict labor--sacrifices of the settlers--effects of transportation--public works--numbers transported--character of convicts--repetition of crimes--views of statesmen--moral effects of transportation--cause of opposition to