Chapter I: Front Matter

Conflict at Risdon--cruelty to natives--tribe visits Hobart Town--child-stealing.

SECTION III. p. 12.

Causes of conflict--Musquito--execution of blacks--unavailing attempts to civilise--ill-treatment by bushrangers--cruelty to the women--effects of civilization--the food destroyed--abduction of the women--natives not naturally cruel.

SECTION IV. p. 26.

Proclamation against them--forbidden to enter the colony--martial law proclaimed--captures--escape--efforts of Mr. Batman--commandoes.

SECTION V. p. 32.

Murders committed by natives--instances of female courage--odd expedients--difficulty of capture--humane efforts of Arthur--list of atrocities.

SECTION VI. p. 44.

Conciliation proposed by Mr. Robinson--project to drive them into Tasman's Peninsula--forces assembled--line of posts fixed--great preparations--martial law proclaimed--advance--line crossed by natives--Walpole's party--white man traced--plan unsuccessful.

SECTION VII. p. 55.

Mr. Robinson's efforts--his plan reasonable--well-timed--opinions of the press--aborigines' committee--proposal to destroy the natives--Robinson goes round the island--Sydney natives--captures--instances of intrepidity--murder of Captain Thomas--Robinson takes the murderers--rewards given to Mr. Robinson--further success.

SECTION VIII. p. 67.

Disposal of the natives--removal to Flinders' Island--opinions of Sir John Pedder--Backhouse's visit--Robinson's management--removal to New Holland--some executed.

SECTION IX. p. 71.

Rapid extinction--original number--cause of decline--clothing--change of habits--restraint--bad water--sight of Van Diemen's Land--notion of Strzelecki--brought back to Van Diemen's Land--Arthur's opinion of the natives.

SECTION X. p. 76.

Origin of the natives--consanguinity--stature--general appearance--families--infanticide--half-caste--tribes--huts--food--dress and ornaments--arms and implements--corrobories and dances--language--disposition--religious ideas--the sick--funeral--conclusion--right of occupation--native rights--exposure to robbers--necessity for protecting the whites--lamentable results of colonization--inevitable.

TRANSPORTATION.

SECTION I. p. 101.

Exile--Roman custom--abjuring the realm--Spaniards the first who transported--practice in the time of Elizabeth--James--Charles the second--James the second--George the first--America--kidnapping--America resists--numbers transported.

SECTION II. p. 106.

State of English gaols--Howard--labor bill.

SECTION III. p. 108.

Bentham's project--New South Wales occupied.

SECTION IV. p. 111.

Voyage--surgeon-superintendents--convict ship--treatment of women--abuses--systems of management--Dr. Reid--Cunningham--Browning--general safety of convict vessels--loss of the _George the Third_--the _Neva_--the _Governor Phillip_.

SECTION V. p. 123.

Early difficulties of convict management--assignment established--disposal of the prisoners.

SECTION VI. p. 129.

Origin of bushranging--Howe--his career.

SECTION VII. p. 138.

Habits of convict population--1824.

SECTION VIII. p. 143.

The colonies re-act on each other--N. S. Wales--state of Parramatta--rocks--allurements of transportation--Macquarie's views--wealth and claims of emancipists--Biggs's views--pardons--emancipists form associations--petition parliament--their alleged reformation--Bigge's commission--Macquarie's recall--character--Rev. S. Marsden.

SECTION IX. p. 172.

Bigge's recommendations--his reports--Macquarie Harbor--emigration proposed--demand for labor.

SECTION X. p. 186.

Land granted to settlers employing convicts--large immigration of capitalists.

SECTION XI. p. 188.

Assignment established in America--debarkation of prisoners--their identification--curious practice--law of assignment--transfer of servants.

SECTION XII. p. 194.

Escapes from Macquarie Harbor--Brady--executions--state of colony--causes of bushranging.

SECTION XIII. p. 214.

Macquarie Harbor--visit of Backhouse and Walker--seizure of the _Cyprus_--_Frederic_--_Badger_.

SECTION XIV. p. 222.

Escape of prisoners--seek for China--curious narrative--the _Young Lachlan_ seized--penalty of escape.

SECTION XV. p. 228.

Arthur's principles of penal government--number reclaimable--Arthur's system--view of the real state of prisoners--representation of society--of transportation--idea of New South Wales at home--writings of Archbishop Whately--Mr. Secretary Stanley's "certain and severe" system--tickets-of-leave.

SECTION XVI. p. 240.

Disposal of mechanics and specials--convict clerks--wives of prisoners--Savary--Port Arthur--Boothe's system--Point Puer--young convicts.

SECTION XVII. p. 248.

Views of ministers--certain severe system--conduct of overseers--retaliation--executions--effects of immigration--colonial protests--curious contrast.

SECTION XVIII. p. 255.

Convict system of New South Wales--Governor Bourke--corporal punishment--Major Mudie--Watt--abuses--Burton's charge--its effect--Molesworth's motion.

SECTION XIX. p. 263.

Franklin's appointment--Maconochie's commission--his reports--his opinions--his system--board refute him--different sources of his system--Dr. Henderson's scheme.

SECTION XX. p. 274.

Remarks on Maconochie's system--partly erroneous--useful results of assignment--Franklin's opinions.

SECTION XXI. p. 278.

Sir Wm. Molesworth's committee--stoppage of transportation to New South Wales--Archbishop Wheately's opinions--Bourke's views--exaggerations--Captain Wood--remonstrance--new plan for Norfolk Island--Maconochie appointed commandant--his mark system--the birthday--the _Governor Phillip_ seized--failure of his system--opinions of Sir G. Gipps--of Captain Forster.

SECTION XXII. p. 291.

Lord John Russell's plan--Sir Wm. Molesworth's proposal to anticipate the land fund--Mr. Innes's pamphlet--resolutions of the Commons--Captain Montagu's visit to England--assignment stopped--gangs formed--evils--Franklin's representations.

SECTION XXIII. p. 294.

Lord Stanley's probation system--effects at Norfolk Island--insurrection--murders--Major Childs--cruelties--Earl Grey's orders.

SECTION XXIV. p. 305.

System in Van Diemen's Land--large arrivals--incompetent officers--errors on which the system-was founded--Lord Stanley's defiance of the settlers--re-emigration--hiring depots--representations of Forster--Hampton--Boyd--Fry--crimes increase--laxity of discipline--Mr. Bishton's views--North Australia--Mr. Latrobe--his representations--ticket system.

SECTION XXV. p. 318.

Treatment of female prisoners--their transportation a great evil--numbers--Sir G. Murray's scheme.

SECTION XXVI. p. 321.

Lord Stanley's directions for the disposal of women--Mrs. Bowden--married female prisoners.

SECTION XXVII. p. 323.

Views of transportation often governed by interest--old system--incompatible objects sought--frequent changes--every theory contradicted by results--Arthur's opinion--progress from 1830--capital expended--value of convict labor--sacrifices of the settlers--effects of transportation--public works--numbers transported--character of convicts--repetition of crimes--views of statesmen--moral effects of transportation--cause of opposition to transportation.

CONCLUSION.

p. 339.

History of Tasmania a type of the Australasian world--early despotism unavoidable--American and Australian colonists--the despotism moderated by home associations--by the press--the union of the colonists--advances of liberty at home--changes required--advantages of the connection with Great Britain--its dangers--federal government--importance of political influence--social state--wonderful prospects--resources--position--exports --gold discovery--the happiness of the people in their own power.

ALPHABETICAL ACCOUNT OF THE CHIEF PLACES IN TASMANIA.

p. 355.

HISTORY OF TASMANIA.

THE ABORIGINES.

THE ABORIGINES.