August 29 1831 - TPIC

Commentary by Patsy Cameron.
Reference: (FM) Plomley, N.J.B. (ed.) Friendly Mission: the Tasmanian journals and papers of George Augustus Robinson (1966)

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29 August

About 12 noon Robinson watched as smokes signalled the approach of his guides. ‘Cooee – cooee – cooee’. They were within hearing and were seen crossing the river and coming through a ti-tree swamp. Robinson described the scene, ‘They were all loaded [with food] and walked in single file and had fourteen dogs’ (FM, 1966, 415). They were ‘all red skinned’ (covered in ochre) lead by Mannalargenna, Kickerterpoller and Jock (who had a brother among them) and accompanied by 6 ‘all fine young men, stout made’ and an older woman (FM, 1966, 415). Moulterheerlargenna (Umarrah) stepped towards Robinson and shook his hand. The search for this group was over.

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