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Hence it comes that the younger and the
rising generation have for the last 20
years more suddenly disappeared
than the elderly men.
[margin note]
As to their general character, they are no doubt
suppressive & treachorous
no [indecipherable] but rather [indecipherable]
Their thieving habits I believe are the result of their
intercourse with Europeans
They looking upon us as
intruders & therefore deem it quite lawful to rob Europeans.
I shall now say a few words about
their means of subsistence [words crossed out] raiment
food habitations though many of you may
know quite as well as myself all that
[indecipherable] them in this respect. A few sheets
of bark or a few boughs is all they
require as shelter & the former is I think
even thought off in summer except
there be strong indications of rain
Often they delay till the rain actually
commences to cut the bark. This often
afforded me a good reason to [indecipherable]
^this utter waste of forthought.
their carlessness & indolence. Of course
the mildness of the climate forms this
carless disfunction & the desire to wander
about & their being nowhere settled is a
further reason. Superstition [indecipherable]

Hence it comes that the younger amd the
rising generation have for the last 20
years more suddenly disappeared
than the elderly men.
[margin note]
As to their general character, they are no doubt
suppressive & treachorous
no [indecipherable] but rather [indecipherable]
Their thieving habits I believe are the result of their
intercourse with Europeans
They looking upon us as
intruders & therefore deem it quite lawful to rob Europeans.
I shall now say a few words about
their means of subsistence [words crossed out] raiment
food habitations though many of you may
know quite as well as myself all that
[indecipherable] them in this respect. A few sheets
of bark or a few boughs is all they
require as shelter & the former is I think
even thought off in summer except
there be strong indications of rain
Often they delay till the rain actually
commences to cut the bark. This often
afforded me a good reason to [indecipherable]
^this utter waste of forthought.
their carlessness & indolence. Of course
the mildness of the climate forms this
carless disfunction & the desire to wander
about & their being nowhere settled is a
further reason. Superstition [indecipherable]