The last transaction in which he was concerned, was of so atrocious a nature, that he thought fit to abscond, and he has not been heard of since.

No legal evidence was attainable in this latter case.

There is no doubt the charges preferred were true, for in the course of my inquiries on my late expedition, I found a tribe, a section of the Jarcoorts, totally extinct, and it was affirmed by the natives that Taylor had destroyed them.

The tribes are rapidly diminishing.

The 'Coligans,' once a numerous and powerful people, inhabiting the fertile region of Lake 'Colac,' are now reduced, all ages and sexes, under forty, and these are still on the decay.