In course of time he became the most important person in the tribe, having gained an ascendancy by procuring the death of his principal enemies and intimidating others, which led to the establishment of his fame as a warrior, and he became in consequence the possessor of several wives, a canoe, and some property in land, the cultivation of which last he pays great attention to.

Wini's character appears from the accounts I have heard--for others corroborated part of Giaom's statement--to be a compound of villainy and cunning, in addition to the ferocity and headstrong passions of a thorough savage--it strikes me that he must have been a runaway convict, probably from Norfolk Island.

It is fortunate that his sphere of mischief is so limited, for a more dangerous ruffian could not easily be found.

As matters stand at present, it is probable that not only during his life, but for years afterwards, every European who falls into the hands of the Badu people will meet with certain death.* (*Footnote.

In further illustration of this assertion I give the following note with which I have lately been furnished by Mr.J.
Sweatman, R.N., who served in the Bramble at the time of the occurrence of the murder to which it alludes.