Lord Hobart to Governor King, 30 January 1802.

I cannot help lamenting that the wise and humane instructions of my predecessors, relative to the necessity of cultivating the good-will of the natives, do not appear to have been observed in earlier periods of the establishment of the colony with an attention corresponding to the importance of the object. The evils resulting from this neglect seem to be now sensibly experienced ….

(Historical Records of New South Wales, Volume 4, p. 684.)