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LIFE OF BUCKLEY.
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CHAPTER X.
ARRIVAL OF CAPTAIN LONSDALE.—STOCKMAN MURDERED.—GENERAL BOURKE ARRIVES.—EARTHQUAKE.—LOSS OF MESSRS. GELLIBRAND AND HESSE.—EXPLORING PARTIES GO IN SEARCH OF THEM.—MY HORSE BRUTALLY MAIMED.—VISIT LAUNCESTON.—RETURN TO MELBOURNE.—LEAVE THE SERVICE OF THE GOVERNMENT.
"Heaven, from all creatures, hides the book of fate,
All but the page prescribed,—their present state."
I should here state, that a Mr. Faulkner, from Launceston, had been some time settled in the colony, but he had no connection with the Company. From some cause or other, and although not knowing much of me, he represented me to be a dangerous character: as one having too great an influence over the natives. I was much hurt at his representations to my prejudice with the Company; and so, not knowing what the ultimate consequences might be, I resigned my situation; continuing however with Mr. Batman, who treated me with the
