The History of Tasmania, Volume II

The History of Tasmania ,
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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