Title White blackfellows : the strange adventures of Europeans who lived among savages / by Charles Barrett

Edition First edition Published Melbourne : Hallcraft, 1948

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W'PONDS	994.02 Bar		AVAILABLE
MELB	994.02 Bar/Wbt		AVAILABLE

Description xvi, 261 pages, 23 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 22 cm Contents 1. "The wild white man" -- 2. "Jemmy Morrill's" exile -- 3. "Duramboi" and "Wandi -- 4. White woman among cannibals -- 5. The headhunters' captives -- 6. "Timor Joe" -- 7. With black "Indians" -- 8. Captive of the anthropophagi -- 9. Wild white women -- 10. De Rougemont's adventures -- 11. Louis of New Guinea -- 12. Blacks and bushrangers -- 13. Rutherford, the white chief -- 14. Bruce and Burns Summary Stories of William Buckley (1835) - Victoria; Sammy Cox or Samuel Emanuel Jervis (1789) - Tasmania; James Murrells or Jemmy Morrill (1846) - Qld.; James Davis called Duramboi & Wandi Bracefield or Bracefell (1826) - Wide Bay, Qld.; Mrs. Fraser (1835) - Qld. on the Stirling Castle; wreck of the Charles Eaton, survivors were John Ireland and William DOyley (1834) - Murray Is.; Thomas Pamphlet, Richard Parsons, John Finnegan (1823) Moreton Bay; William Jackman (1836) - Great Australian Bight; Barbara Thomson (1848) - Cape York; Chapter on Aborigines and bushrangers Analysis Australian Aborigines Notes Illustrations on lining papers Bibliography Includes bibliographical references to New Zealand Subject Bruce, George, 1779- Burns, Barnet, approximately 1807- Fraser, Eliza. Rutherford, John, 1796- Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs. Aboriginal Australians. Bushrangers -- Australia. Frontier and pioneer life -- Oceania. Frontier and pioneer life -- Australia. Local studies collection Maori (New Zealand people) Pioneers -- Australia. Survival. Torres Strait Islanders -- Social life and customs. Wild men. Wilderness survival -- Australia. SUBJECT Australia -- History -- 1788-1851. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85009592 New Zealand -- History -- To 1840. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85091504 Oceania -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116422 -- Anecdotes. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001294 Oceania -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116422 Genre/Form Biographies. LC no. 49022746

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