Volume 2

The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl.

Date:
[1821-1827?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    naturally bad or cruel disposition, but from the egregious misconduct, to cail it by no harsher name, of an officer be- longing to the division of troops sent from New South Wales to found thie first settlement on the river Derwent. The natives at first manifested the most friendly sentiments towards the new comers. The lieutenant-governor, Cap- tain Bowen, having set out on a tour through the island, left the officer al- luded to above in the command of the detachment. The day after the gover- nor’s departure, about noon, great num- bers of the savages were seen descend- ing the neighbouring hills; they ap- proached with loud songs and bearing green branches, the well-known sign of