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”.