The Zulus who fought us in Africa, the Maories in New Zealand, the Arabs in the Soudan, were far better provided with weapons, more advanced in the science of war, and considerably more numerous, than the naked Tasmanians.

Governor Arthur rightly termed them a noble race." These were indeed wonderful people, the natives.

They ought not to have been wasted.

They should have been crossed with the Whites.

It would have improved the Whites and done the Natives no harm.
But the Natives were wasted, poor heroic wild creatures.