Original sentence: At 3 am the Mounted POlice rode out to where between 200 to 300 Aborigines lay asleep in camp.During the early 1860's a mass poison atempt was made.In 1853-4, at an area close to the present day East Ballina Golf Course, the Native Police slaughteres at least 30 - 40 men, women & children while they slept.It is believed that some Aborigines from north of the Tweed River had murdered some Europeans & that the murderes had fled south towards the Richmond.On the night prior to the raid, the Mounted Police stayed at James Ainsworths father's Public House, 'The Sailor's Home'.The troopers & trackers surrounded the cmp & opened fire.Their journey was almost twice as long as the Kon-Tiki expeditions of 1947 and proved that people could have travelled across the Pacific in ancient times
Edited sentence: At 3 am the Mounted Police rode out to where between 200 to 300 Aborigines lay asleep in camp.During the early 1860's a mass poison attempt was made.In 1853-4, at an area close to the present day East Ballina Golf Course, the Native Police slaughtered at least 30 - 40 men, women & children while they slept.It is believed that some Aborigines from north of the Tweed River had murdered some Europeans & that the murderers had fled south towards the Richmond.On the night prior to the raid, the Mounted Police stayed at James Ainsworth's father's Public House, 'The Sailor's Home'.The troopers & trackers surrounded the camp & opened fire.Their journey was almost twice as long as the Kon-Tiki expeditions of 1947 and proved that people could have traveled across the Pacific in ancient times