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The Aborigines Homepage | Founding Fathers | The Settlement of Melbourne | The Discovery of Melbourne Mind Map | Alex's Reflection | Danny's Reflection | Bibliography **How the Settlers felt about the Aboriginal people.** This information is real first hand information, some of it written by the actual first settlers. This is how they actually felt about the Aborigines and their way of life.
 * The settlers thought the Aborigines were not much more than dirty brutes.
 * They thought they were the most miserable people in the world, largely due to their lifestyle, which they misunderstood.
 * Their description of the Aborigines was full lips, great bottle nose, wide mouths, black short curly hair and skin like charcoal.
 * The settlers thought they looked like people from Guinea.
 * The settlers were shocked and concerned that the Aborigines wore no clothing except for a piece of rind off a tree tied around their waist like a girdle, with a couple of handfuls of grass or shrubs stuffed under the girdle to cover their nakedness.
 * The settlers even tried employing the Aborigines to carry their water barrels in return for castaway clothing. The Aborigines kindly smiled and walked away (the Europeans were forced to carry their own water).
 * They were also astounded that the Aborigines did not seem to be attracted to any of the settlers' material items or way of life e.g. clothing, food, weapons, tools, houses/huts. **How the Aborigines felt about the white people.** The Aborigine[[image:aboriginal.jpg width="152" height="229" align="left" caption="Aborigine Hunting"]]s were kind to the settlers when they first came, welcoming them and having [[image:Aboriginal_flag.jpg width="150" height="94" align="right" caption="Aboriginal Flag" link="ps_homepage"]]Ceremonies to allow them to travel across their land, but the settlers took it the wrong way and decided to take over and settle on the Aborigines native land. For every ten Aborigines killed, only one European was killed. This is because the Europeans had more advanced weaponry and tools e.g. guns, horses and armour.

When an Aborigine killed a European it was a big deal and the settlers made a huge fuss about it but if a European killed an Aborigine it was considered no big deal, no-one seemed to care much.

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 * Our Feelings and thoughts on how the white people treated the Aborigines**
 * They stole almost all of the Aborigines land.
 * They treated them like animals.
 * Many Aborigines were killed because the white people didn't understand their way of life.
 * For every one European killed by the Aborigines, about ten Aborigines were murdered.
 * In our opinion the Europeans didn't have the right to invade and destroy the Aborigines land and way of life.