It is proper to mention the natives, though they could hardly count they were so scarce.

At a time when they had not as yet begun to be much disturbed--not as yet being in the way--it was estimated that in New South Wales there was but one native to 45,000 acres of territory.
People had to be protected.

Officers of the regular army did not want this service--away off there where neither honor nor distinction was to be gained.

So England recruited and officered a kind of militia force of 1,000 uniformed civilians called the "New South Wales Corps" and shipped it.
This was the worst blow of all.

The colony fairly staggered under it.
The Corps was an object-lesson of the moral condition of England outside of the jails.