The night was dark, and the native was brought into the hut, where he died the next day.

He could not help observing, that cases of this kind were much more frequent than was creditable to the reputation of the Colony.
Last Sessions a man was tried and acquitted of the charge of killing a native woman.

That verdict was a very merciful one, but not so merciful, he trusted, as to countenance the idea that the lives of the natives are held too cheaply.

The only observation that he would make upon this case was, that it was ONE OF GREAT SUSPICION." [Note 51: I believe this case was not brought to trial.] Other cases have occurred in which some of the circumstances have come under my own notice, and when Europeans have committed wanton aggressions on the Aborigines, and have then made up a plausible story to account for what had taken place, but where, from obvious circumstances, it was quite impossible to disprove or rebut their tale, however improbable it might be.

In the Port Phillip District in 1841, Mr.Chief Protector thus writes to the local Government.
"Already appalling collisions have happened between the white and aboriginal inhabitants, and, although instances, it is possible, have transpired when natives have been the aggressors, yet it will be found that the largest majority originated with the Europeans.