"They proceeded, not with the sword, but with the olive branch."
— Henry Melville

January 1, 1970

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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