028 - Hunter Valley Manuscript - July 1833

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Description(028.jpg) Verso are capable of keeping runaways in check - and the natural consequence if that a bushranger seldom exists more than two or three months - The police know the country better than the runaways, and can easily entrap them, whilst from their being well armed and well mounted, it would require a large body of bushrangers to oppose even a few of them - Great credit is certainly due to this body for their activity and seal and as most of them are men picked for their intelligence as well as activity, they seldom commit aggressions on the liberties of the public, whilst of late very few prisoners have been taken the bush and those who [then] set their evil fortunes at defiance have soon been apprehended - Much ridiculous misapprehension has existed in the Mother Country with regard to bushrangers. Many wonderful stories have been circulated with more of imagination than judgement - the life of the bushranger even if he should escape apprehension for a short time is full of misery, they dare not hurt themselves even to the prison population, who have everything to expect for apprehending them - They find no food in the bush, such as a European can subsist on, they may occasionally obtain a few precarious supplies from the outstations - Whilst the booty they may obtain from their depredations amounts to nothing, for no settlers have any portable articles of value at their establishments, the bushrangers consequently lead a life of extreme misery penury and anxiety, and it has been invariably found the best antidote for the [taste] for [wandering] to allow a man who has taken the bush to converse with your servants - The greatest robberies are always committed in the neighbourhood of Sydney, and it is well known that the robbers far from being bushrangers are sheltered and many of them domiciled in Sydney itself - Here they sometimes have an opportunity of acquiring a considerable booty and have ready marts to disbuse of it. They are bushrangers at nights and peaceful citizens by day- Datenot specifiedSourcehttps://www.flickr.com/photos/uon/2665508297/

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SubjectNSWHunter ValleySettlerNew South Wales historyNSW historyAustralian historyMaitlandNew South WalesAustralia

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