| Description | He hasn't heard from J.B.L or his family since leaving England, wrote to the Carrolls some months ago and sent message to J.B.L on loss of latter's wife. Would like to know of his Christian progress since then and that of his nephew and nieces. His own religious faith has not faltered. "Little companies" have been formed in Van Diemans Land and Sydney, and in the latter a Friend has erected a meeting house at the cost of £700. Hobart Town is much inconvenienced by the lack of one. They have visited the penal colony on Norfolk Island and are at a station of the Church Missionary Society in a mission to the blacks. The problem of making headway with the natives. The blacks' way of life is very simple. There is reason to be believed many have been destroyed by whites. Some tribes are nearly extinct. They rarely go far from their place of birth and some become half domesticated and useful to the whites. J.B and his company are supported in their activities by the Governor and Colonial Secretary. He continues from Bathurst on the 4th October; he is on his way back to Van Diemans Land and will continue his labour of love for another year. Australia lacks population but her pasturage is not comparable to that of G.B [Great Britain], each sheep needing 3 acres for its maintenance. Grain can, however, be grown as well as in England. The blacks are in a low state of morals, where they are removed from Europeans, when with them they acquire their vices and their diseases. Their rights and lives are little respected by the whites. |