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10 enjoying our domestic felicity, several men came in and took her away from me hy force ; she, however, going very willingly. The next day, as I had no supreme court to go to for damages, I went over to the tribe the intruders belonged to, and told them how I had been treated. I confess I did not make a very great fuss about my loss, if it was one, hut endeavoured to whistle it down the wind gaily. Several of the friendly natives were anxious I should take the usual revenge upon her and the man she had left me to live with, hut I refused, and in the end, she was speared hy another man, with whom she had been coquetting, and to whom she had also played falsely.” On two occasions he nearly renewed acquaintance with white men. A vessel rode into the harbour. While the crew were on shore, some of the natives swam to the ship, and stole several articles. The Europeans on their return noticed their loss, and sailed away immediately ; Buckley vainly attempted to attract their attention. Another time a boat was stranded. Its inmates, two sailors, were kindly treated, though afterwards murdered hy the Yarra tribe. The natives told him that once a vessel arrived in the Bay, and two men were tied to a tree and shot. The period of his deliverance was near. One day when upon Indented Head, he met two aborigines with coloured handkerchiefs at the end of their spears, and learned the news of the presence of three white men and six strange blacks. These were the persons Mr. Batman, the founder of Port Phillip Colony, left behind him in June, 1835. The two natives furthermore told Buckley, that “ they were in search of another tribe, to enable those left behind to murder the white people the more easily, and by so doing to get possession of their property.” The white blood of the man was aroused at this recital, and he walked 15 miles to save his countrymen. The narrative is thus given by Mr. Morgan :— “ Whilst sitting in deep thought musing over all these matters, I saw one of the white men take a bucket and go with it to a well some way off, and when he had left it with his load, I went there also, in order to gradually recover my senses, and act upon my ultimate determination, whatever it might be. “ From the well I had a good view of all about me, and observed
