Topics: People
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1847 - North West - view
John Luke Barber
1847 - North West - view
Ballendella
1847 - North West - view
Eliza
1848 - North West - view
Richard Moore
1848 - North West - view
“King Jacky”
1848 - North West - view
“Queen Biddy’s tribe”
1848 - North West - view
Gundy
1848 - North West - view
Tom Twopenny
1848 - North West - view
Jarrawuk
1848 - North West - view
Murrumgunariman
1848 - North West - view
Edmund Kennedy
1848 - North West - view
Wonnarua
1848 - North West - view
Jacky-Jacky
1848 - North West - view
Kennedy
1848 - North West - view
Charles Fitzroy
1848 - North West - view
John Foley
1849 - South Coastal - view
Biddy Giles
1849 - South Coastal - view
Paddy Burragalang
1849 - South Coastal - view
Ellen
1849 - North Coastal - view
Bowen Bungaree, Bungaree’s son, sails with other Koories to the Californian gold
fields with Richard Hill because of their skill in sailing boats and in the
hope to be given jobs to carry the crowds of gold seekers flocking to the
Eldorado. Black Bowen is the only one to return. He speaks with ridicule about
America, “That country! No wood for fire, but plenty cold wind … no good for
me! No good for blackfellows!”
On
his return Bowen resumes his duties as a Police Tracker and reports to police
the activities of two assigned servants (convicts) who had escaped and are
petty thieves on the Northern Beaches. The men are captured and sent to prison.
Bowen’s reputation is now well established, for example he tracks and uses his
gun to hunt the bush-ranger Casey. Bowen wear grand clothes, Farrell describes
him: “He was in full rig with dress coat, his hair knotted up behind with three
feathers stuck in it”.