" London Morning Advertiser," June 10, 1891.

Auckland Star, Volume XXII, Issue 250, 21 October 1891, Page 7

" London Morning Advertiser," June 10, 1891.

" Mr. Vogan presents us with one of the strongest and sternest indictments of the policy pursued towards the aborigines in Queensland that has ever "been penned. Unhappily there is only too much evidence ',o bear out a portion of his charges. That native camps have been from time to time ' rounded up ' and their inmates mercilessly nliot down, either in retaliation for some alleged offence on the part of the blacks or out of sheer Avantonness, is a fact patent to , anyone acquainted with the colony in ] question. JNor can it be denied that the capture of black girls by white settlers for immoral purposes is altogether unknown, :.hough/in this connection it must not be forgotten that the native method of courtship in itself partakes of the characteristics popularly associated with the Avooingof the Sabines "by the Romans. Bub Mr. Vogan goes rather further than we can venture to confirm him in his assertions respecting the employment of the black police in the slaughter of their lese civilised fellows. His statements on this head are certainly most startling, and deserve sifting to the utmost. . . . Mr. Vogan has produced a highly interesting book containing a succession of stirring incidents capitally described, and some excellent portrayals of types and characters familiar to sojourners beneath the Southern Cross. He is, too, to be specially commended for the clear and graphic touches with which, without any overdone attempts at word painting, he puts the salient features of local landscape before the reader's eye."