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Native Police Station
Gipps Land
March 2nd, 1847

Sir,
I have the honor to report for
your information that the 2nd
division of Native Police under my
command has been employed
during the past month in sup-
pressing the depredations committed
by the Aborigines upon the stock of
the Squatters in this district, and
other duties which have been re-
quired of them [error omitted] by the Commissioner
of Crown Lands-

I may also add that
the destruction of property by the
Natives

The
Commandant
Native Police

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Natives, has been more frequent
of late owing in some measure
to the late Expedition party have so
much disturbed them and driven
them from their usual haunts-

One of the Troop horses I have
every reason to believe has been speared
and eaten by the Natives as no trace
can be found of him, and I have to
request that you will allow him
to [sic] replaced.

I have also to report that
Bungalene the man with whom
the white woman was supposed
to be living with, was captured
by the men, with a Loubra that
he had stolen from the Melbourne
Blacks who he called “Lurndicun”,
and, requested to be sent to Melbourne
stating that she the (Loubra) was the
white woman and that he had
got no other, I did not think
proper