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“Our acts towards the natives have struck terror in them, an object never to be neglected.” Governor Stirling Perth Gazette, 30 August 1834 “If Aborigines again offered to spear white men or their cattle, or to revenge in any way the punishment which had been inflicted on them for their numerous murders and outrages, four times the present number of men would proceed amongst them and destroy every man, woman and child.” Governor Stirling Perth Gazette, November 1, 1834 “The natives seem to be inclined to be quiet since I shot a few…they are extremely cowardly by very revengeful.” Lieutenant H.W. Bunbury, Letters and Journals, 1836 “The lower orders on the Swan hold the life of a native of no value, one young man, the son of a gentleman, shocked me by saying he had been out all morning and had but shot one black.” Letter from a Settler, Perth Gazette. January 12, 1833 “There are always in my office 60 stand of arms with full supply of ammunition, for those who may require it, ready to inflict a prompt and heavy punishment on the natives.” C H Fremantle, Diary and letters relating to the Founding of the Colony of Western Australia, 1832. “An inquiry is to be instituted into unprovoked and causeless firing t an unarmed natives.” Captain F.C. Irwin, recorded in the diary of George Fletcher Moore, May 2, 1833.
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“Our acts towards the natives have struck terror in them, an object never to be neglected.”
Governor Stirling
Perth Gazette, 30 August 1834
“If Aborigines again offered to spear white men or their cattle, or to revenge in any way the punishment which had been inflicted on them for their numerous murders and outrages, four times the present number of men would proceed amongst them and destroy every man, woman and child.”
Governor Stirling
Perth Gazette, November 1, 1834
“The natives seem to be inclined to be quiet since I shot a few…they are extremely cowardly by very revengeful.”
Lieutenant H.W. Bunbury, Letters and Journals, 1836
“The lower orders on the Swan hold the life of a native of no value, one young man, the son of a gentleman, shocked me by saying he had been out all morning and had but shot one black.”
Letter from a Settler, Perth Gazette. January 12, 1833
“There are always in my office 60 stand of arms with full supply of ammunition, for those who may require it, ready to inflict a prompt and heavy punishment on the natives.”
C H Fremantle, Diary and letters relating to the Founding of the Colony of Western Australia, 1832.
“An inquiry is to be instituted into unprovoked and causeless firing t an unarmed natives.”
Captain F.C. Irwin, recorded in the diary of George Fletcher Moore, May 2, 1833.
