"They proceeded, not with the sword, but with the olive branch."
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The History of the Island of Van Diemen's Land, p. 121, of John Batman's roving party against the aborigines; cf. Garry Linnell, Buckley's Chance (2019), p. 174
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Henry Melville
Henry Saxelby Melville Wintle (1799 – 22 December 1873), commonly referred to as Henry Melville, was an Australian journalist, author, occultist, and Freemason best remembered for writing the play The Bushrangers, his historical work The History of Van Diemen's Land from the Year 1824 to 1835, and his occult philosophical work Veritas: Revelation of Mysteries, Biblical, Historical, and Social by Means of the Median and Persian Laws. His life was dramatized in the 1882 Princess Theatre (Bendigo)
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