Biraban and Boardman guide visiting Society of Friends (Quaker) missionaries

Biraban and Boardman guide visiting Society of Friends (Quaker) missionaries from Newcastle to Lake Macquarie. One describes Biraban as “a tall intelligent man”, wearing a “red-striped shirt, not very clean, a pair of ragged trowsers, and an old hat. Suspended from his neck, by a brass chain, he had a half-moon shaped, brass breastplate, with his native and English name, and a declaration of his kingly dignity; engraven upon it”. He describes Boardman as “an interesting looking young man in appearance about 18 years of age and wore a ragged blue jacket and a pair of trowsers”. (Smith, Mari Nawi, 2010, 57).