Topics: People

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1839 - North West - view

“Jemmy”

1839 - North West - view

Agate

1839 - North West - view

Papola (“Warriba” or “Whip-em-up”)

1839 - South West - view

Chief Merri Merri ( Mary Mary)

1839 - North West - view

“Putty Tribe”

1839 - North West - view

Agate

1839 - North West - view

King Ben

1839 - North West - view

Miles McGrath

1839 - South West - view

Mulgoa

1839 - North West - view

David Dunlop

1839 - North West - view

Hale

1839 - North West - view

King Shingleman

1839 - North West - view

Thomas Swan

1839 - South West - view

Judith

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 - North West - view

Threlkeld

1840 - North West - view

Darkinung

1840 - West - view

William

1840 - South West - view

James Knight

1840 - South West - view

King George