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66 He married the widow of an emigrant in March 1840, received a pen sion of £12 a year in 1850, and then an addition of ,£40 from the Legislature of Victoria. In January last he was thrown from a vehicle and dangerously wounded. On February 2nd, 1856, he was carried to his last home. The funeral was attended by his son-in-law and Mr. Morgan, the editor of his life as chief mourners. The inconsistencies of his narrative could be pointed out. He, speaks of Batman’s family living in a tent at Melbourne, when it was a wodden house. Mr. Fawkner was known to have no friendly feeling toward him. Buckley says, “ From some cause or other, and although not knowing, much of me, he represented me to be a dangerous cha racter.” In fact, Mr. Fawkner gave such an account of his stirring up the blacks, with such expectations of fatal conflicts, that the captain thus written to, exclaims—“ I fear these occurrences will prevent my settling in this delightful country.” That same letter of the Founder of Melbourne, dated May, 1837, records that Buckley had “ several wives among the native women, and a great number of children.” Buckley used to say that Mr. Fawkner did not like him because he was a friend of Mr. Batman’s, and because he objected to his taking Port Phillip blacks over with him to Launceston. He was certainly attached to Batman : and when the news of his death came to Hobart Town, he threw himself upon his bed and cried bitterly. Mr. Fawkner has this description of the man. “ He stood six feet five inclies in his stockings, was not very bulky, nor over-burdened with nons. He fell to the level of the blacks, he did not by any means elevate or raise them, or instruct them in any manner. He ran from the settlement on Point Nepean, on the 24th December, 1803, in company with three others. When Buckley first joined the whites at Indented Head, he had totally forgotten his mother tongue ; and the first words he spoke in it was a reply to a desire of one J. Green, whether he would not have some bread to eat, and he struggled some time, and then pronounced the word “ bread.” The Governor Arthur party when news arrived that this runaway had been found, showred favors innumerable upon him. First, in order to obtain all the infor mation that he possessed ; and also to prevail upon him to refuse to give any part of his local knowledge to those persons not belonging to the co-partners. Alas ! the lump of matter was too mindless to yield any very useful information. He had always loved his ease, had
