Topics: Culture
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Before Cook - North Coastal - view
The Cameraigal were considered by the first fleet author Collins as “by far the most numerous tribe of any within our knowledge” (Collins 1975, p. 453). Richard Hill of the Aborigines Protection Board wrote that the “Cammera” people extended from the northern part of Sydney Harbour, “say from North Head to Lane Cove River or estuary, right away north to the Hawkesbury, and away east to the sea coast” (Hill and Thornton 1892). Cammeragal, therefore, seems to have been a collective name for a strong alliance of clans on the north harbour of Port Jackson.
In the harbour area of Port Jackson, people may have called themselves Eora and the name for man or people was ‘mulla’ . This was recorded in vocabularies by Phillip Gidley King, William Dawes, John Hunter and Daniel Southwell. Recent research suggests that ‘Eora’ did not signify a definite clan or group. The consensus among linguists is to describe the language spoken in this region as the Sydney language as suggested by Dr Jakelin Troy. (Troy 1994)
1775 - South West - view
they ate mangrove (toredo) worms called 'Cah-bro'
1788 - North Coastal - view
The Cannalgal clan (Camaraigal, Ga-mariagal)
are the first Indigenous peoples to meet the English settlers in Sydney Harbour.
The clan are coastal people living between Manly Beach
to Dee Why in the north.
1789 - North West - view
Aborigines harvesting yams, banks that are “ploughed” and other signs of occupancy: the setting of animal traps
1789 - North Coastal - view
In
talking about Arabanoo, Marine Captain Watkin Tench writes “Indeed the
gentleness and humanity of his disposition frequently displayed themselves …
When our children … used to flock around him, he never failed to fondle them.”
(Tench 1996, p. 95)
1790 - North Coastal - view
Phillip
notes “the weather now being very dry, the natives were employed in burning the
grass on the north shore opposite Sydney, in order to catch rats and other
animals, whilst the woman were employed in fishing: this is their constant
practice in dry weather.”
1791 - North Coastal - view
Tench
observes language differences: “Although our natives (in Sydney)
and the strangers (Hawkesbury
River) conversed on a par
and understood each other perfectly, yet they spoke different dialects of the
same language”. (Tench 1996)