"I often wonder what the first settlers who saw this place must have felt," Wolf said.

The earliest settlers here had felt the power of this place.

Possibly the original settlers, still figuratively looking over their shoulders, had felt the need for such a hiding place.

After the death of Adam Payne no white settlers in the area really felt safe.

The settlers, for their part, feel hated and, worse, hunted like animals.

Even so, and even as their numbers continue to rise by nearly 10 percent a year, settlers feel a cold Government wind upon them.

Even by 1854 settlers felt threatened by the Buandig people.

Many settlers feel they have been shoved aside, betrayed even, in the rush for peace.

Living in the quiet, safe, mostly rural communities, the 17,000 settlers feel their idyll is about to be shattered.

The settlers felt that it would use all the convict labour, and be favoured by government.