Ster Beds. McFarlane borrowed the square punt from the 'Clonm

Diers. Every man seemed to do just

what he liked, to kill what he liked, and to eat what he liked, and it

was astonishing to see so little discipline on a station owned by a
gentleman who had seen service both in the army and in the border
police. The blacks were at this time very troublesome
about the new stations. They began to be fond of beef, and in order to
get it they drove
fat cattle into the morasses and speared them.
This proceeding produced strained relations between the two races, and
the only effectual remedy was the gun. But many of the settlers had

scruples about shooting blackfellows except in self-defence, and it
could
hardly
be called self-defence to shoot one or more of the natives because a
beast had been speared by some person or
persons unknown. John Campbell, at Glencoe, tried a dog, a savage
deerhound, which he trained to chase the human game. This dog acquired
great

skill in seizing a blackfellow by the heel, throwing him, and worrying
him until Campbell came up on his horse. When the dog had thus
expelled the natives

from Glencoe, Campbell agreed to lend him to little Curlewis for three
months in order to clear Holey Plains Station. Curlewis paid ten
heifers for the loan of the dog, and Campbell himself went to give him
a start in the hunt, as the animal would not own any other
man as master. But the blacks soon learned that Campbell

and his dog had left Glencoe unprotected,

and the second night after his departure they boldly entered the
potato patch near his hut, and bandicooted the whole of his potatoes.
When the sails were made, the two boats were provisioned
with tea, sugar, flour, and a keg of whisky; the meat was carried in
the shape of

two live sheep, to be killed when required. The party consisted
of eight men,
and each man was armed with a double-barrelled gun. McMillan, McLenna

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