had been taken from them ; warlike or peaceful they were to be shot ill districts wliose boundaries were uiideiined ; and if, when starving, they crept into corn-fields at night, the same doom awaited thern. They were cumbering the earth in the eyes of the invaderji;, and were to be cut down- It may be remembered that Pemulwy, in 1790, speared the convict gamekeeper employed by Governor Phillip, and that a party of Boldiers vainly aoiight him. He must have lived the life of a hunted tiger. Collins recorded that in Way 1795, under Faterson's brief rule —
- Alt open war seeuie^l alKHit this time to have coiuriieiiced between tko
natives ami the ficttlens ; that a part of the New South Wales Corps wvka aent from Parniinatta with iiistniclionB to destroy as many as they could meet with of the Bediagal tril^e (Hawkesbury), and in the hope of striking terror, to erect ^bbel« in several phieeSj whereon the bodies of aU they might kilJ wei-e to be hung/' The military party was no sooner withdrawn, after obeying this order, and sending a few women, children, and one reputed cripple,to Sydney,'^ than the hunted savages wreaked vengeance upon a settler at Richmond Hill. In con- sequence of this horrid circumstance another party of the corps was sent out» This duty now became permanent, and the soldiers were distributed amongst the settlers for I their protection ; a protection, however, that many of them did not merit,-' In another passage (March 1795), Collms declared: ** All these unpleasant circumstances were to be attributed to the i!l-treatment the natives had received from the settlers." Pemulwy was still at large in 1795, and when the military were shooting his countrymen at Richmond, Collins wrote, that Pemulwy *'or some of his parfc}^ even ventured to appear within half-a-mile of the brickfield huts and wound a convict, . , * As one of our most frequent walks from the town was m that direction, this circumstance was rather unpleasant." Again^ in 1802, but for the last time, we hear of the hunted Pemulwy. lii replying to Lord Hobart's despatch respiting the Plawkesbury murderers, King'^ told the end of the bold leader who with wooden weapons kept up for yetu's some kind of warfare with those who outlawed him on his native soil. He w^as described as the terror of He escaped iy awiimninj^ across the harbour to the North Bhore. King to Lord Holmrt, :^Jth Out. 18i>2.
