Could blood answer blood, perhaps for every drop of European's shed by natives, a torrent of their, by European hands, would crimson the earth.
[Note 40: "The whites were generally the aggressors.

He had been informed that a petition had been presented to the Governor, containing a list of nineteen murders committed by the blacks.

He could, if it were necessary, make out a list of five hundred blacks who had been slaughtered by the whites, and that within a short time."-- Extract from speech of Mr.
Threlkeld to the Auxiliary Aborigines' Protection Society in New South Wales.

Abstract of a "Return of the number of homicides committed respectively by blacks and whites, within the limits of the northwestern district (of Port Phillip), since its first occupation by settlers--" "Total number of white people killed by Aborigines 8 "Total number of Aborigines killed by white people 43." This is only in one district, and only embraces such cases as came to the knowledge of Mr.Protector Parker.

For particulars vide Papers on Aborigines of Australian Colonies, printed for the House of Commons, August 1844, p.