he might do as he pleased, antl enoroaehed on a cultivated part of his land, which Arthur had no idea of Hiiffering, (After vain expostulation, Arthur employed a surveyor- ) This operatiuii proved that Arthur was right, and that he knew his proper bonmlaries quite welK ^^Tien he saw that his opponent was satisfied, he said* 'Well, Mr. , though you have tried to wrong me, I ^ill treat you diflerently from what I helieve you ■ would have done to me if I waa in your place. You can come on my land and remove your crop when it ia ripe.' "'^ Mr. Bon wick adds that Arthur had not thoroughly adoptt^cl the civilization of his conquerors, for **such con- dnct was scarcely that generally adopted by our enhghtened countrymen." Mr. Bonwick knew the hero of this tale, and declared that ** his face presented no aggravation of the native features, though sufficiently hetraying the black man. If standing on the steps of the Piazza di Spagna in Rome, he would have been often selected as a model for his magnificent bead." Such was one of the pure blood of the vanished tribes of Tasmania. APPENDIX. There wag, in 18S3, a collection of weapons called boomerangs in the South Kensington Museum, and tlse description in the catalogue spoke of the cnr'ed tlirowing-sticks for killing game as the retunung lioomerang of the Australians. The explanation of the returning movement was stated {p. 29) to be due to the eontinuance of rotation *' after the forward move- I ment has ceased by which means the axis of rotation continuing parallel to elf, and the fore-part of the weapon being tilted upwards, in falling, it '~ rs Imckwards on an Lneline{l plane.** da description is true of a card struck upwards ao as to make it [rotate. It will return on an inclined plane to the person who sent it, hut it will return almost as if pulled hack by a thread- So will three thin ' pieces of wood fiistened cross- wise. Neither the card nor the wood will return if projected almost perpendicularly. In some tril)es a toy- boomerang was made which was thrown almost horizontally, but up- wards : and its path was, though it went far, somewhat similar to that of
- ^ "The Last of the Tasmanians." p. .*»53. James Bonwick, Lon<3on :
1870. Arthur was married to a half-caste. They had no children. Mr, Bonwick sadly records the fact that Arthur became dissipated, and while plying as a boatman between Hobart Town and Oyster Cove, was drowned ny the upsetting of a boat in 186L
