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Fristian Mambe was an Aborigine or native of this colony
when he was quite a child he was found [original text crossed out] in the bush by the Rev'd Marsden
& brought up in his family. There he was sent to school & instructed in all that was requisite for
for him to learn the [indecipherable] read write and cypher tolerably
well [indecipherable]. But through the dire influence of Servants who were prisoners & others around
he was also taught all that was hard. When Mr
M went to England he took the lad with him
trusting that he would be severed from his
old companions be brought to see the evil of his
ways. Departed [indecipherable]. On board however he
was still [indecipherable][original text crossed out] in the way of temptation and
[indecipherable] drunk for which he was punished. All
this [indecipherable] he robbed his Master of a
considerable sum of money & ran off. A few
years after a Gentleman to whom he was
known [indecipherable] and brought him back
to New South Wales in a [indecipheable] miserable condition