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CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. VOYAGERS TALES OF THE TASMANIANS. | |
| The First Battle | 3 |
| Captain Cook's Visit | 5 |
| The French Visit in 1792 | 9 |
| Flinders and Bass at the Derwent | 15 |
| Péron's Visit in 1802 | 18 |
| The French and the Wood-nymphs | 23 |
| CHAPTER II. THE BLACK WAR. | |
| Massacre of the Blacks in 1804 | 32 |
| Destruction of Public Records | 39 |
| Kidnapping Black Boys | 41 |
| Michael Howe's Black Mary | 47 |
| Chase after Stock-keepers | 50 |
| Colonel Sorell's Order of 1819 | 53 |
| CHAPTER III. CRUELTIES TO THE BLACKS. | |
| Cruelty of Early Settlers | 59 |
| Cruelty of Bushrangers | 61 |
| Spanish and Dutch Cruelties | 68 |
| CHAPTER IV. OUTRAGES OF THE BLACKS. | |
| Hanging of Two Aborigines | 75 |
| The Demarcation Order of 1828 | 78 |
| Martial Law | 82 |
| Pictorial Proclamation | 85 |
| Proclamation of October 1830 | 89 |
| Mosquito and the Tame Mob | 98 |
| Execution of Mosquito and Black Jack | 103 |
| Cruelties of the Blacks | 107 |
| A Hand left in the Trap | 111 |
| Bravery of a Half-caste Wife | 121 |
| Chastity of White Women respected | 125 |
| Time of Terror | 129 |
