Eumarrah himself later explained that some colonists were killed in these raids because his tribe were driven from their hunting grounds and it was his patriotic duty to fight back.

[3] In 1828, Governor George Arthur organised 'roving parties' of armed militia to go into the Tasmanian countryside to track down and capture or destroy Indigenous rebels such as Eumarrah.

In November of that year, a 'roving party' led by Gilbert Robertson and guided by a captured Indigenous resistance leader named Kikatapula, tracked Eumarrah down near Tooms Lake.

[4] In early 1830, with the help of Kikatapula, Eumarrah became part of the expedition led by George Augustus Robinson to make amicable contact with the Indigenous people of the remote regions of western Tasmanian.

This operation involved a line of thousands colonists many kilometres long scouring the settled areas for the remaining Indigenous people.

By this stage, the 'friendly mission' had evolved into a series of expeditions to round-up the remaining Indigenous people of Van Diemen's Land and transport them to Flinders Island in order to ethnically cleanse the colony of its original occupants.

[4] In late December, Robinson with the aid of Eumarrah, Mannalargenna, Kikatapula and others, tracked down the remaining sixteen Big River-Oyster Bay which included the resistance leaders Tongerlongeter and Montpelliatta.