Biraban and Boardman guide visiting Society of Friends (Quaker) missionaries
North West - 1836

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).