showed the numerous spectators the power of this agent of communication, even in the savage breast.  After, in the greatest good humour, and with an evident desire to make themselves agreeable, going through various feats of their wonderful dexterity, they proceeded on board the Swan River packet, until the Tamar is ready to proceed with them to Great Island.  The women were frightfully ornamented with human bones hung round them in various fantastic forms, even to the rows of teeth and skulls.  Some of these were the remains of enemies, and white persons whom they had killed, but more as the mementos of the affection which they bore to the husband or children whom they had lost.  They each carried a handful of spears.  They wore the usual kangaroo skin cloak thrown over the back or shoulder, and thickly smeared with red ochre and grease.  Their hair as well as skin was also thickly coated with the same, the hair being carefully dressed or formed by its help into neat little knots or globules all round the head.  One of the men has lost his arm, being the same who about two years ago was caught in the rat trap that happened to be set in the flour cask in Mr. Adey’s stock-keeper’s hut.  They surrendered to Mr. Robinson (who, however, very prudently did not take possession of them) six stand of arms, which they had taken from the whites they had murdered, or stolen from the huts.  Three of them were ready loaded, and the muzzles carefully stuffed with pieces of blanket, and one is the same which was so recently borne by the late unfortunate Mr. Parker.  The inside of several of their bark huts, which Mr. Robinson entered, was very ingeniously ornamented with rude delineations of kangaroos, emus, and other animals.  The removal of these blacks will be of essential benefit both to themselves and the colony.  The large tracts of pasture that have so long been deserted, owing to their murderous attacks on the shepherds and the stockhuts, will now be available, and a very sensible relief will be afforded to the flocks of sheep that had been withdrawn from them, and pent up on inadequate ranges of pasture—­a circumstance which indeed has tended materially to impoverish the flocks and keep up the price of butcher’s meat.

The dogs which these poor people have nursed and bred up in order to assist them in hunting the kangaroo, have latterly become so numerous and wild as to be a very serious and alarming nuisance to the settlers, committing on many farms nightly ravages on their flocks.  In the neighbourhood of Benlomond they are particularly troublesome, and are so wild and savage as to set even men at defiance.  Notwithstanding this, however, the numbers of the kangaroo seem daily and rapidly to increase.  Whether this arises from the latterly diminished slaughter among them, owing to the decrease of the blacks who formerly fed upon them, or from the effects of the Dog Act, which induced many to destroy their dogs and to desist from the chase, or from the