The land belonged to them.

The whites had not bought it, and couldn't buy it; for the tribes had no chiefs, nobody in authority, nobody competent to sell and convey; and the tribes themselves had no comprehension of the idea of transferable ownership of land.

The ousted owners were despised by the white interlopers, and this opinion was not hidden under a bushel.

More promising materials for a tragedy could not have been collated.

Let Mrs.Praed speak: "At Nie station, one dark night, the unsuspecting hut-keeper, having, as he believed, secured himself against assault, was lying wrapped in his blankets sleeping profoundly.