"Undoubtedly, the being reduced to the necessity of driving a _simple but warlike, and, as_ IT NOW APPEARS, NOBLE MINDED RACE, from their native hunting grounds, is a measure in itself so distressing, that I am willing to make almost any prudent sacrifice that may tend to compensate for the injuries that government is unwillingly and unavoidably the instrument of inflicting."--GEORGE ARTHUR.[27] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 23: +-----+---------+-----+--------+ |Date.|Captured.|Died.|Escaped.| +-----+---------+-----+--------+ |1831 | 54 | -- | -- | |1832 | 68 | 5 | -- | |1833 | 42 | 40 | 3 | |1834 | 20 | 14 | -- | |1835 | 17 | 14 | -- | | |---------+-----+--------+ | | 201 | 73 | 3 | +-----+---------+-----+--------+ The numbers were-- In 1836 In 1838 In 1847 ---- ---- ---- 123 82 45] [Footnote 24: The Bishop of New Zealand has wisely protested against the blanketing process of depopulation. The ignorant natives, accustomed to lie down in their damp huts, were steamed into consumptions.] [Footnote 25: "They pine away: more than one half have died, not from any positive disease, but from a disease they (physicians) call _home sickness_;'--a disease which is common to some Europeans, particularly the Swiss soldiers. They die from a disease of the stomach, which comes on entirely from a desire to return to their own country."--_Evidence of Col. Surgeon Barnes: Par. Papers._] [Footnote 26: The subjoined abbreviated list may give an idea of the rapid decline:-- _Commandant's Office, Flinders' Island._ 1836-- DEATHS: December 24.--The native youth, George. 30.--The native man, Nimrod. 1837-- January 28.--The native man, Columbus. 29.--The native woman, Pupedar. February 5.--Of acute pneumonia, the native man Samuel. 20.--Of chronic visceral inflammation, the native man, Algernon. 25.--Of the same, the native man, Matthew. 26.--Of the same, native man, Omega. 29.--Of the same, native woman, Truedeberrie. March 16.--The native woman, Tyree. 21.--The native woman, Queen Charlotte. 30.--The native woman, Manoon, ditto Maria, and an infant. J. ALLEN, _Surgeon_. June 3.--Of extreme debility, Daniel. 20.--Of inflammation in the intestines, the aboriginal native, King William. A. AUSTIN, _Medical Attendant_. --_Parliamentary Papers_.] SECTION X. _Origin._--The traditions of the natives afford no clue to their origin. They are, perhaps, a branch of the Australasian family settled in New Holland(?). _Mocha_, is the name for water among the western tribe of this island: it is known by the same sound at Cape Leeuwin, on the continent. Though boats were not employed, they constructed a catamaran of bark, or decayed wood, of the specific gravity of cork: these materials, tied together, enabled them to pass to the islands of the Straits.