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35 roots, bones, nuts, tomahawks, &c. One had a part of a wheel spoke ; and another, an iron hoop. The account is thus continued : “ They came back with us where I had some blankets, looking glasses, beads, handkerchiefs, and apples. I gave them eight pairs of blankets, thirty handkerchiefs, eighteen necklaces of beads, six pounds of sugar, twelve looking glasses, and a quantity of apples, which they seemed much pleased with.” Then follows a notice of the fair one : “ The young woman whom I have spoken of before, gave me a very handsome basket of her own make.” A notice of the younger folks follows : “ The children were very good looking, and of a healthy appearance.” One week after, he fell in with a friendly chief and his family near the Merri Creek, who introduced him to the rest of his tribe, the Jagga Jagga. There were three noble brothers of that name, who ever afterward became the sincere and devoted followers of Mr. Batman. It was with these that he entered into his famous treaty. The William Penn of Port Phillip closes his account of that week with the Aborigines, with these words : “ They certainly appear to me to be of a superior race of natives which I have ever seen.” MR. WEDGE AND THE BLACKS IN 1835. We have been favoured with a manuscript notice of our Port Phillip natives, from John Helder Wedge, Esq., M.L.C., of Tas mania, and then one of the Port Phillip Association. This is the record of his visit to the Blacks Friends of the Wild White Man. “ On landing at Port Phillip on the 7th August, 1835, at the encampment of the party, three white men and some Sydney natives left for the purpose of maintaining the friendly intercourse which had been established with the aborigines of that part of New Holland, I iound seven families of the natives residing in their huts around the encampment. The greater part of them were absent at the time on a hunting excursion, but a boy came down with the white men to welcome us on our arrival. An old man (Pewitt) and his two wives, were at the huts, together with some young girls who had been promised in marriage to the Sydney