Topics: People

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1839 - North West - view

Governor Gipps

1839 - North West - view

Charles Pickering

1839 - North West - view

“King Shingleman”

1839 - North West - view

Lt Charles Wilkes

1839 - South West - view

Polly

1839 - North West - view

Wentworth

1839 - North West - view

“Big-headed Blackboy”

1839 - North West - view

Hale

1839 - North West - view

Mary Ann Bugg

1839 - South West - view

Chief Merri Merri ( Mary Mary)

1839 - North West - view

“Lower Branch Tribe”

1839 - North West - view

“Jemmy”

1839 - North West - view

Agate

1839 - North West - view

Papola (“Warriba” or “Whip-em-up”)

1840s - North Coastal - view

He visits an Aboriginal camp near Camp Cove where “about a dozen natives of the Sydney and Broken Bay tribes were encamped”, and persuades ‘Old Queen Gooseberry’, Bungaree’s widow, to explain to him what she knew of the North Head carvings. She initially objects, saying that these places were ‘koradjee ground’ or ‘priests’ ground’ that she must not visit. After she was encouraged to row across the harbour with them in a whale boat, she “consented at the last to guide us to several spots near the North head, where she said the carvings existed in great numbers, as also impressions of hands upon the sides of high rocks”.

1840 - West - view

Lucy Burns

1840 - South West - view

George Timbery

1840 - South West - view

Clara’s boy

1840 - North West - view

Threlkeld

1840 - North West - view

Jimmy “King of Patrick Plains”