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Border Police Station
Gipps Land, 8th August 1846

Sir,
In obedience to your orders
I do myself the honor to report to you
my proceedings during your absence
from the District - for the recovery of
a white woman said to be living
with the Blacks-

On the 13th May Mr Walsh called
at the Border Police Station, requested
me to accompany him in search
of the White woman, saying his force
was not sufficiently strong for the
purpose. In compliance with his
request I placed myself & party, con-
sisting of 4 Border Police, & 3 Native
Police under his orders, and proceed-
ed in Your boat to Lake Victoria,
Mr Walsh & his party accompanying
us in Mr Raymond’s boat.

On the following morning we fell
in with a Tribe of Blacks near the
Entrance to the Lake, but could
not communicate with them, as
the all ran away. Tackawadden,
a Native

To C.J. Tyers Esqr JP.
Commr C. L.

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a Native Boy, who has been living
some months with the Whites, said
his father was not there, - that he
knew the Tribe, but that it was not
his Tribe - We then went to
Maclennan’s straits, between Lake
Victoria & Lake Wellington, where
Tack-awadden said his Tribe always
stopped. We fell in with their tracks
which we followed up till we came
to the Tribe on a back-water at
Lake Reeve. Mr Walsh & 4 Native
Police & Tackawadden went on shore
I and my party remained with
the boats for the purpose of intercepting
the White woman should the Blacks
attempt to cross her in a canoe.
Mr Walsh spoke to the Blacks through
Tackawadden, and was answered
by a native woman. The Native
Police brought five gins and one
man with a little boy in his
arms to us. They told us the
white woman was not with
them at the time, but had crossed
the Backwater the day before in search
of food. Tackawadden told us
they were gammoning us - he
thought