The latter would kill, if they were in the humour for it; but if there was no serious resistance, and none of their number got hurt, more often than not they contented themselves by leaving everyone tied, hand and foot, till somebody came to unloose them.
"I remember one horrible case, in which they so tied up three white men at a lonely station, and nobody happened to go near it for three weeks afterwards.

It struck someone that none of them had been seen, for some time; and a couple of men rode over and, to their horror, found the three men dead of hunger and thirst.
"Now the black fellows don't do that sort of thing.

When they do attack a station and take it, they kill every soul; man, woman, and child." "I suppose, in that affair you were telling us of," Reuben asked, "both of your ticket-of-leave men were killed ?" "Yes.

One seemed to have been surprised and speared at once.

The other had made a stout fight of it, for the bodies of three natives were found near him." "I remember one case," one of the others said, "in which the blacks did spare one of the party, in a station which they attacked.