Jimbour ...of " Warraba," taken at that station. This black, as a small boy, came to Jimbour with the first or second party of Europeans under the late Mr. Henry Dennis...
Jimbour
76 Queensland ...or men of " the good old sort," was the late Sir Joshua Peter Bell—one of Queensland's best known men. He arrived in 1846, and was a big, fine-looking man. He was a...
Queensland
76 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Bay ...a mjBtery, then on the 20th October, 1848, she was found on me beach at K^pel Bay, v- n. KtRgftd, iind with her mast cut out. The c^.rgc^ was quite...
Bay
80 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 South ...went down the river to the north side of the stream, so spoiling the chance South Brisbane had of first place. This tree was very large in the trunk, but some of...
South
78 -19.17522938106053,64.14620971568705,0 Sydney ...fun. Generally the boat would be cleared of all " grog " before she left for Sydney again. On the 15th May, 1847, the first vessel built in Moreton Bay w£is...
Sydney
79 -60.1831,46.1351,0 QUEENSLAND ...came to " Moreton Bay," as Brisbane was then called ; so whenever one OF EARLY QUEENSLAND 279 did come it caused quite a stir and excitement. The steamers always...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Street ...building (just where the Telegraph Office now stands), down as far as Albert Street, and it was about here that a three-railed fence and a ditch some feet wide...
Street
79 -2.74,51.12472,0 Albert ...this building (just where the Telegraph Office now stands), down as far as Albert Street, and it was about here that a three-railed fence and a ditch some feet...
Albert
77 2.634452,49.988634,0 Brisbane ...The Old Woman's Factory." This building was empty when the Petries arrived in Brisbane, and there they Uved till their own house on the Bight was built, and...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 QUEENSLAND ...then commenced between us which only ended with his life." OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 27s My father used often to swim across from Petrie's Bight to Kangaroo Point...
QUEENSLAND
72 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Brisbane ...Tom " Punished for Smoking—" Ticket-of-Leave " Men—First Racecourse in Brisbane —Harkaway—Other Early Racecourses— Pranks the Squatters Played— Destiny of...
Brisbane
73 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Cape Moreton ...he says : — OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 269 " Of the cocist of the mainland between Cape Moreton and Sandy Cape little had hitherto been known. No survey of it had under any...
Cape Moreton
79 Logan ...found, hence the name—Bracefield Cape. He was a convict who had deserted in Logan's time, and he it was who rescued Mrs, Frazer (wife of Captain Frazer, of the...
Logan
78 -81.99346,37.84871,0 Noosa ...the present names for those bestowed by this band of explorers." It was near Noosa that Bracefield or Graham (" Wandi " the blacks called him) was found...
Noosa
79 153.0901,-26.39433,0 Maryborough ...by Sir Hugh Nelson at a conference of the Royal Geographical Society, held at Maryborough. The river discovered was known as the Wide Bay River for some years, but...
Maryborough
80 143.73923,-37.04562,0 Gammon Island ...Boat "—Mr. Russell's Details of the Trip—A Novel Cure for Sunstroke—Gammon Island—Jolliffe's Beard. =HIS whaleboat trip to Wide Bay, and Mr. Andrew Petrie's...
Gammon Island
70 Bahpal Mountain ...also informed us that there was a beautiful country about forty miles from the Bahpal Mountain, extending quite to the ocean, and abounding in emus and kangaroos. According...
Bahpal Mountain
81 Brisbane ...to Ipswich I was told that my brother had been found drowned in the creek at Brisbane on the same day as I had seen the sheep." Strange, but true, is the following...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Queensland ...and continue under the Government there. However, taking an interest in Queensland, he preferred remaining where he was to try his luck in what he foresaw would...
Queensland
74 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Queensland ...it ? ' ' Give " Cocky " a piece of bread.' " Governor Cairns, when he came to Queensland, had heard so much about " Cocky " that he asked to be taken to see him. Poor "...
Queensland
80 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 QUEENSLAND ...to the lecture with his head on one side, then, as the pilot promised OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 289 to try and do better, " You ought to be ashamed of yourself !" he said...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Logan ...for a Charles Dickens — "Cranky Tom "—" Deaf Mickey "—Knocked Silly in Logan's Time— " Wonder How Long I've Been Buried "—Scene in the Road Which is Now...
Logan
73 -81.99346,37.84871,0 Short Street ...a large flood which carried away what was then Harris's Wharf in the present Short Street, next to where Pettigrew's mill stood. The wharf was taken a good many yards...
Short Street
79 Brisbane ...fine, big, strong men, and good pullers, having had more practice than their Brisbane brethren, as they mostly had belonged to tt . Pilot's boat's crew. That night...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 QUEENSLAND ...he was a grand swimmer and diver in those dajre, and very few could OF EARLY QUEENSLAND- 303 catch him in the water. Of course, there was no bridge across the river...
QUEENSLAND
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Womsley Point ...to the point on South Brisbane above the present Commercial shed, then called Womsley Point after a sawyer who used to cut timber there. Another buoy was anchored here...
Womsley Point
80 South ...Point, where a buoy was anchored, then round the buoy and back to the point on South Brisbane above the present Commercial shed, then called Womsley Point after a...
South
81 -19.17522938106053,64.14620971568705,0 Valley ...been underground for a number of years. And so the big place we now call the Valley had its beginning. [THE END.] LIST OF PLACES, NAMES, PLANTS, and TREES, With a...
Valley
79 11.77935,47.89307,0 Roma ...had been used, but not sufficiently to be called a cemetery. When the place at Roma street was disused four or five men were set to dig up, the graves, and the...
Roma
81 148.78751,-26.56741,0 Street Station ...on the opposite side of the street to where the coal shoots are now at Roma Street Station. There the prisoners and soldiers were buried. Before that again North Quay had...
Street Station
78 -0.520828,51.886356,0 Roma ...It was on the opposite side of the street to where the coal shoots are now at Roma Street Station. There the prisoners and soldiers were buried. Before that again...
Roma
80 148.78751,-26.56741,0 Street ...building, a little above the old archway that stood then in Queen Street. After the evidence was taken on both sides, the Police Magistrate said that...
Street
68 -2.74,51.12472,0 Town Hall ...to hold and to wheel, and so they went on till they got about to where the Town Hall is now—^to the lockup, and then the three, the victim and the...
Town Hall
77 Logan ..." that both ' Deaf Mickey ' and " Cranky Tom ' had been knocked silly in Logan's time with the punishment they got in those days. They both seemed harmless...
Logan
75 -81.99346,37.84871,0 Petersburg ...by two ladies of the Royal Family of Russia to travel with them from St. Petersburg through Europe to Rome, etc., and back. He studied homeopathy, or rather that...
Petersburg
75 -132.95556,56.8125,0 QUEENSLAND ...This road, which is the present Hamilton Road, had formerly been OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 227 made by the women prisoners. Looking at the cutting now it seems...
QUEENSLAND
76 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Road ...and it was a nice place to rest. This road, which is the present Hamilton Road, had formerly been OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 227 made by the women prisoners...
Road
76 0.133128,52.228967,0 Hamilton ...spring there, and it was a nice place to rest. This road, which is the present Hamilton Road, had formerly been OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 227 made by the women prisoners...
Hamilton
81 142.02202,-37.74425,0 Breakfast Creek ...in those days), and to give " Tinker " a rest. The halting place was past Breakfast Creek, on the river bank where the ice-works were afterwards built. There was a...
Breakfast Creek
76 Roma ...so with both hands, walked off to camp, which was near the present Roma Street Station. There he had to lie on his back, and the blacks put very fine...
Roma
69 148.78751,-26.56741,0 New South Wales ...incident of the same sort happened in Queen Street, opposite where the Bank of New South Wales now stands. Two blacks were fighting there, and as at Dunwich, one of them—"...
New South Wales
81 147.01175425586197,-32.16900279777995,0 Limestone ...by a crew of prisoners. " Tom " recollects well one trip his father made to Limestone with this boat. On this occasion, as an outing for them. Grandfather took his...
Limestone
78 -87.9684,41.13237,0 Kilcoy ...latter occasion, Mr. Petrie and his companions struck across the country to Kilcoy, which had then been formed as a station for about three days by Sir Evan...
Kilcoy
78 QUEENSLAND ...again in a proper manner. On his arrival the only quarters available OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 221 for himself and family were to be found in the female factory (now the...
QUEENSLAND
80 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Queensland ...1837, in the James Watt, the first steamer which ever entered what are now ' Queensland waters.' His duties were to direct and supervise the labours of the better...
Queensland
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Brisbane ...his position. In the same capacity he was employed until his removal to Brisbane in 1837. The buildings which had then been erected in the city, and were in...
Brisbane
74 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Black ...the boat till daybreak. " 5th : Made sail for the River Marootchy Doro, or the Black Swan River ; arrived there at two o'clock, but was afraid to enter, it being...
Black
81 -3.341448,56.537107,0 Redbank ...found, though some time after the discovery at TivoU, the black diamond at Redbank and Moggill, and mines at these places were in subsequent years worked by...
Redbank
77 152.86667,-27.6,0 QUEENSLAND ...its welfare, that any attempt to write the story of Brisbane would be OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 257 absolutely incomplete without reference to the pioneer Andrew Petrie and...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Brisbane ...and labouring for its welfare, that any attempt to write the story of Brisbane would be OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 257 absolutely incomplete without reference to...
Brisbane
72 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbane ...(Dundardoom). The white man has mispronounced it so—" Dundathu." An article on Brisbane by an unsigned writer, appearing in the " Town and Coimtry Journal " some time...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Mooroochie ...his expedition mentioned above, when he ascended Mount Beerwah, and found the Mooroochie River. He, however, was not a scientific botanist, and only reported his...
Mooroochie
80 BidwiUi ...and containing kemals as large as an almond. Its botanical name, the Araucaria BidwiUi, was given to it because Mr. BidwiU is supposed to be the first white man who...
BidwiUi
81 Mooroochie ...River, and approaching the coast between the Glass House Mountains and the Mooroochie River, its length being about another one hundred and fifty miles. Along this...
Mooroochie
77 Mary ...toward the coast, separating the waters of the Brisbane from those of the Mary River, and approaching the coast between the Glass House Mountains and the...
Mary
76 61.83031,37.59378,0 Cooyar Creek ...the Main Range for about one hundred and fifty miles to the head of the Cooyar Creek, there a spur branches off from the Main Range eastward toward the coast...
Cooyar Creek
74 Bay ...redtape." Mr. RusseU then speaks of meeting (shortly after returning from Wide Bay in 1842) a Mr. BidweU, " an attache to the Botanical Society in London," in...
Bay
81 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 Caboolture ...of it polished to show the grain. Doubtless there are farmers still on the Caboolture River who remember seeing that old bunya tree with the piece cut from it. It...
Caboolture
77 152.9511,-27.08465,0 QUEENSLAND ...night, the junk of wood was put on the pack-bullock next morning, and OF EARLY QUEENSLAND, 255 eventually Brisbane was safely reached. Mr. Petrie had the block of timber...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Mount Beerwah ...understanding him." The writer came across Mr. Archer's book after describing Mount Beerwah's ascent by Mr. Andrew Petrie. It will be seen that the latter climbed with his...
Mount Beerwah
80 Brisbane ...probably that name bestowed on him by Mr. Petrie, the Government Engineer at Brisbane, for guiding him and his party to the top of the mountain shortly before our...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 New South ...advancement from the ignoble position of a mere outlying penal settlement of New South. Wales to the dignified and important status of an independent province. From...
New South
79 Limestone ...Brisbane—Sir Evan Mackenzie—Mr. David , Archer—Colonel Barney—An Early Trip to Limestone (Ipswich)—Two Instances of Aborigines Recovering from Ghastly Wounds. ^^^—S^HE...
Limestone
81 -87.9684,41.13237,0 QUEENSLAND ...of the great men of the island, and they wished to give his relatives OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 217 the skin. They came and said they wanted to go over to the north point of...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Bribie Island ...as try to convert those blacks." During the years of my father's management at Bribie Island, there were only two or three deaths there. One, he remembers, was that of a...
Bribie Island
81 Roma ...river, opposite the present Ice Works, the Government saw-pits stood, and at Roma Street Station, in the hoUow +here, the convicts made the bricks. When my...
Roma
79 148.78751,-26.56741,0 Limestone ...fellow's body was found floating on the Bremer by John Petrie on his way to Limestone. It was supposed he took cramps while swimming across the river. In those days...
Limestone
78 -87.9684,41.13237,0 QUEENSLAND ...flogged them getting it himself. Punch hit nearly always on the same OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 237 place, which grew raw, and his unfortunate victim was covered with blood...
QUEENSLAND
80 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Logan ..." while the clapping was going on. The boy was told in those days that once in Logan's time, when Kangaroo Point was under a crop of com, the blacks were very...
Logan
81 -81.99346,37.84871,0 Kangaroo Point ...used to climb up to his hut and watch that the blacks did not swim across from Kangaroo Point, or come in a canoe to steal the corn or sweet potatoes. The blacks were very...
Kangaroo Point
81 Brisbane ...generally divided up into lots who worked at New Farm, Kangaroo Point, South Brisbane, from Turbot Street along the river towards Roma Street Station, and from the...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Longreach Hotel ...were, but they worked in a place called the lumber yard, which stood where the Longreach Hotel is now. This was a waUed enclosure containing different buildings where the...
Longreach Hotel
81 Rome ...Family of Russia to travel with them from St. Petersburg through Europe to Rome, etc., and back. He studied homeopathy, or rather that system of curing...
Rome
77 Island ...is a great deal superior, and also the soil ; the cypress pine upon Frazer Island being quite splendid. The island is sixty miles long, by ten or twelve wide. "...
Island
77 -91.09621,30.21742,0 QUEENSLAND ...not prevented them. By this time Bracefield had stripped himself OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 265 of the clothes we had given him, and he went in among them, and was...
QUEENSLAND
76 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Bay ...and when they reached it, seeing our black so plump and fat, the Wide Bay natives asked Bracefield and Davis if the white men would take the part of the...
Bay
72 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 Kilcoy ...a shepherd of Mr. (now Sir Evan) M'Kenzie's, who was murdered by the blacks at Kilcoy station some time before. I gave the blackfeUow a tomahawk for the watch...
Kilcoy
81 Bay ...One of the first questions he asked me was about the settlement at Moreton Bay, which I gave him to understand was now a free settlement, and a very different...
Bay
77 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 Bay ...we encamped. " 7th : Set sail about eight a.m., wind south-east, for Wide Bay, taking Bracefield with us ; landed about four o'clock ; distance thirty miles...
Bay
76 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 QUEENSLAND ...our gaze, when, after half-an-hour's scramble, we reached the top. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 253 Nearly the whole of the Moreton Bay district lay spread out beneath us...
QUEENSLAND
78 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Brisbane ...or black, fellow slang, having been occasionally at the German Mission, near Brisbane. He led us ten or a dozen miles eastward through thickly-timbered and very poor...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Mission ...' dog English,' or black, fellow slang, having been occasionally at the German Mission, near Brisbane. He led us ten or a dozen miles eastward through...
Mission
81 -98.32529,26.21591,0 Bay ...is interesting to compare the first opinions formed of the timbers of Moreton Bay with those of the present day. Mr. Petrie was correct in his prophecy that "...
Bay
80 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 Moreton ...is interesting to compare the first opinions formed of the timbers of Moreton Bay with those of the present day. Mr. Petrie was correct in his prophecy that...
Moreton
72 -3.11667,53.4,0 Bay ...Petrie, the able and intelligent superintendent of Government works at Moreton Bay, while that part of the territory was a penal settlement." Dr. Lang speaks...
Bay
81 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 Mount Petrie ...Petrie found his bearings as regards the Brisbane River was afterwards called Mount Petrie, a name it still is known by. With reference to this, some years ago, the "...
Mount Petrie
80 Brisbane ...hungry. The hill from which Mr. Petrie found his bearings as regards the Brisbane River was afterwards called Mount Petrie, a name it still is known by. With...
Brisbane
75 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Bay ...of the Early Days Andrew Petrie's Tree—Early Opinion of the Timbers of Moreton Bay — An Excursion to Maroochy—First Specimens of Bunya Pine—First on Beerwah...
Bay
81 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 European ...had the same appearance as the wild blacks ; I could only recognise him (as a European) from having known him before. When I spoke to him he could not answer me for...
European
80 Bracefield ...During supper I made enquiries after " Wandie " (the bush name of the runaway Bracefield), and was informed by the natives that he was only a short way off. " 6th...
Bracefield
80 Bay ...a beastly sail, etc., during all the night and following days. " The Wide Bay River is navigable for a vessel drawing 9ft. of water for about forty miles up...
Bay
76 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 Cape ...boat harbour ; we stayed there for the night. _" 8th (Sunday) : Went up on the Cape and Russell Hill to tcike some bearings, but the morning being so hazy...
Cape
81 26.592,37.676,0 Wivcnhoe Station ...through appreciating his bed somewhat too highly. CHAPTER XVIII. A Messagi to Wivcnhoe Station after Mr. Uhr's Murder—Another Message to Whiteside Station—Alone in the Bush—A...
Wivcnhoe Station
80 Bowen ...Brydon and William Ballentine—and reaching the camp at Bowen Hills, Father, who was the only one who could speak the native's tongue, told...
Bowen
57 148.24754,-20.01367,0 Leichhardt ...since dead, whom my father remembers meeting when a boy, was the explorer, Leichhardt. He also visited my grandfather Petrie, and got " Tom " one day to accompany...
Leichhardt
77 151.15625,-33.88341,0 Bay ...this time there was very little communication between Sydney and Moreton Bay—as Brisbane was then called. Only about once a month or two a vessel would...
Bay
75 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 Brisbane ...father has known them aU connected in that way—the Ipswich and Brisbane, the Brisbane and the Pine, the Pine and Bribie Island, and the Bribie Island and Maroochy...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbane ...to tribe. My father has known them aU connected in that way—the Ipswich and Brisbane, the Brisbane and the Pine, the Pine and Bribie Island, and the Bribie Island...
Brisbane
78 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Bay ...and declared it weis true : — A young fellow from " Wiji-wiji-pi " (Swan Bay) was once traveUing along the outside beach of Stradbroke Island when he came...
Bay
75 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 Noosa ...fearful fight came off, some Northern tribes—the Bribie, Mooloolah, Maroochy, Noosa, Durundur, Kilcoy, and Barambah blacks—^ranging themselves against the...
Noosa
80 153.0901,-26.39433,0 Station ..." Dia-alin " still in front, they at length came in sight of Moimt Brisbane Station. Here Father told the black man he could go, and on receiving the tobacco and...
Station
78 33.30691,27.21779,0 Moimt ...the mountain with " Dia-alin " still in front, they at length came in sight of Moimt Brisbane Station. Here Father told the black man he could go, and on receiving...
Moimt
81 Helena ...were fast asleep. As far as we could see, we were somewhere between St. Helena and Wynnum, and the flood-tide seemed to be taking us towards the Brisbane...
Helena
74 -112.03611,46.59271,0 St. ...worn out, were fast asleep. As far as we could see, we were somewhere between St. Helena and Wynnum, and the flood-tide seemed to be taking us towards the...
St.
80 -8.61242,41.26556,0 Brisbane ...idea of that sort of meal and return to the boat. " We now made a start for Brisbane, the darkie and myself on the raft, and the others in the boat, and we got...
Brisbane
78 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbane ...measured and taken over, and the men were given an order for their money in Brisbane. The raft was not very large, and the timber was all hand-sawn in to...
Brisbane
78 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Hills ...others at the Hamilton scrub. The Brisbane tribe themselves kept to Bowen Hills, Spring Hill, New Farm, etc. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 163 When Father went out to...
Hills
76 -118.40036,34.07362,0 Moreton Island ...just before crossing Indooroopilly Bridge. The Logan, Stradbroke, and some Moreton Island blacks went over to what we call West End. There used to be a large scrub there...
Moreton Island
77 Indooroopilly Bridge ...the river on the left hand side travelling from Brisbane, just before crossing Indooroopilly Bridge. The Logan, Stradbroke, and some Moreton Island blacks went over to what we...
Indooroopilly Bridge
81 Toowong Railway Station ...Wivenhoe tribes, hunted in the scrub which used to stand near where the Toowong Railway Station is now. The blacks called that part " Baneraba " (Bunaraba) ; Toowong was their...
Toowong Railway Station
74 Samford ...to the corrobboree, kippas had gone through their ceremony out at the Samford ring, and these young men were now taken to where the women were all dancing...
Samford
72 152.86699,-27.3727,0 Hills ...Island, and all from the Logan up to Brisbane had their camp at Green Hills (overlooking OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. i6r Roma Street Station, where the Reception...
Hills
72 -118.40036,34.07362,0 QUEENSLAND ...Street. Along the river bank, from Creek Street to past where Messrs. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 159 Thomas Brown and Son's warehouse is now, stretched the Petries' garden...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Brisbane ...took it in hand as far as Lytton, and eventually the party of four arrived in Brisbane, after what my father now terms a mad trip. " It was madness," he says, " to...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 QUEENSLAND ...(TOORBAL POIN'I :iR NlXlil NINIW I'KIHE). t To /'aci p. 10-/. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 195 now and again, they were quite happy at work, and worked hke tigers. He...
QUEENSLAND
74 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Caboolture ...spoken, and the other three were the natives who had attacked the two men at Caboolture, killing one and leaving the other for dead. Crossing to the mainland, some of...
Caboolture
79 152.9511,-27.08465,0 Maroochy ...ten blacks (a few having their wives with them), to go to * Mooloolah and Maroochy, to look for cedar timber. Calling at Bribie Island on their way, more blacks...
Maroochy
76 Creek ...Maroochy—Tom Petrie the First White Man on Buderim Mountain—Also on Petrie's Creek—A'Specially Faithful Black — Tom Petrie and his " Big Arm"—Twenty-five...
Creek
79 -94.97743,29.7355,0 Australian ...as humpy is of Australian origin, that it is one of those words coined by the Australian white man and adopted by the blacks. CHAPTER XXII. A Trip in 1862 to Mooloolah...
Australian
80 Redcliffe ...Humpybong," we are told that that was the name given to the deserted place at Redcliffe by the blacks. They called it " Umpi Bong," meaning " dead houses." Now " bong...
Redcliffe
80 115.94645,-31.93845,0 West ...be the age of the tree at 1824 or '25, when the limb was blown off ? People in West Australia have been boasting of some of their durable timbers, but I think the...
West
81 -21.706287643780712,64.84520612000266,0 Susan ...them timber, but only one man and his wife were taken. The party went up the Susan River, and to Eraser Island, and Tin Can Bay, and they saw plenty of timber...
Susan
79 Nundah ...a year." " But, ' Dalaipi,' did not the white men settle the missionaries at Nundah to make you better, and teach you not to kiU, steal, or tell lies ? Did they...
Nundah
79 Bribie Island ...young brother George, two blackfellows, and a halfcaste boy, called Neddy. At Bribie Island no blacks were to be seen, but fresh tracks appeared everywhere. Father sent...
Bribie Island
80 Bulimba ...after the above event (1846), Jemmy made his way to the scrub at " Tugulawa " (Bulimba), to where some sawyers were at work. One of these sawyers afterwards told my...
Bulimba
81 Breakfast Creek ...Jemmy " was that he had been steaUng at Eagle Farm, then again at " Yawagara "—Breakfast Creek. Later, sawyers working in the scrub near the present Toowong Railway station—"...
Breakfast Creek
81 Street ...where the prisoners were always flogged stood a little further up Queen Street than that part which Messrs. Chapman and Co. now occupy. " Millbong Jemmy " was...
Street
74 -2.74,51.12472,0 Stradbroke Island ...EARLY QUEENSLAND. 167 " MillboQg Jemmy " made his way down to Amity Point on Stradbroke Island, and got the blacks there to mark his body, so that he would be taken for one...
Stradbroke Island
79 Brisbane ...Petrie on the cheek, causing a deep flesh wound. The gins and blacks of the Brisbane tribe commenced to cry about this, and said that the weapon had come from the...
Brisbane
78 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Pinkenba ...thing surprised him greatly. During a big fight at " Dumben " (now called Pinkenba), a blackfellow, in stooping down to pick up a weapon, got struck with a spear...
Pinkenba
76 Queensland ...of Tom Petrie's "Marked Tree Lines"—First Reserve for Aborigines in Queensland (Bribie Island)—The Interest It Caused—Father McNab—Keen Sense of...
Queensland
70 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Maroochy ...again by the time they came back. In the end old Governor took ill and died at Maroochy. When dying he asked his nephew to be sure and take his brass plate and give it...
Maroochy
81 North Pine ...Robert Ferguson (Miss Petrie), John Petrie at the old place, and "Tom" out at North Pine. With the latter he took " Dalaipi's " place, when that good old man had died...
North Pine
80 Maroochy ...the two at length came to a little dry creek off the South branch of the Maroochy, and here Banjo had nicely covered up with bushes a fine reef of quartz full...
Maroochy
75 Brisbane ...Nittery.' Meaning that when he got back to Brisbane, he would tell Mr. Petrie to get a policeman to put handcuffs on me for...
Brisbane
45 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Bribie ...Father was the first to take him into Brisbane. This was on the journey from Bribie to Brisbane after the trip there in search of a lost boat, and after the murder...
Bribie
79 153.15942,-27.08367,0 Creek ...and stuck like leeches to him. On another occasion, while still on Petrie's Creek, having been there for some time, he had run out of provisions, and the blacks...
Creek
78 -94.97743,29.7355,0 Brisbane ...trip, till he returned to pick them up again, for they were afraid to go to Brisbane or the Pine because of having been connected with several murder^. The blacks...
Brisbane
78 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Yebri Creek ...took the party to the Pine, up which they travelled as far as Yebri Creek, and camped there. Next day my father looked about for a suitable place in...
Yebri Creek
64 QUEENSLAND ...where the church is now, and on to cross over the creek that used to OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 177 run up Creek Street. Pausing on the site of the present Gresham Hotel...
QUEENSLAND
80 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 France ...for whom a reward was offered. A man called Isam, a native of the Isle of France, imdertook to catch him. This man was a prisoner in the early times, but had...
France
76 2.5522572848112075,46.557575440537526,0 Street ...Street, Valley, between the site of the Byrnes statue and the Brunswick Street corner. The police had hidden near by, and a blackfellow (Wumbungur) of the...
Street
74 -2.74,51.12472,0 Wickham Street ...down a tree for him when surprised. The scene was somewhere in the present Wickham Street, Valley, between the site of the Byrnes statue and the Brunswick Street corner...
Wickham Street
77 North Pine ...had a hand in the murder of Mr. Gregor and Mrs. Shannon, and the sawyers at North Pine ; also Gray, on Bribie Island, and others. Father remembers when he was...
North Pine
78 Caboolture ...who came into the yard was one OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 175 who was in the boat at Caboolture when we killed the men there, and we thought he might catch us." They then...
Caboolture
81 152.9511,-27.08465,0 Whiteside Station ...time the blacks had attacked two shepherds at the Upper North Pine at, Whiteside Station, and killing one, left the other for dead. The latter had his nose broken and...
Whiteside Station
73 Brisbane ...The letter carried the news that old Captain Griffin had arrived in Brisbane, and needed horses to take him out to the station, where his wife and grown-up...
Brisbane
70 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Sideling Creek ...them a shorter way to their plantation than the track which went away round by Sideling Creek. So he marked the present road to Morayfield. Then from there he marked the...
Sideling Creek
81 Humpybong ...Premier played. Still later again my father marked the present road to Humpybong, when it was made shorter by the bridge across Hayes's Inlet. In those days a...
Humpybong
73 Sideling Creek ...arrival anyone travelling from the direction of " Murrumba " had to go up to Sideling Creek to get on to the Old Northern Road to Brisbane. Then the first picnic party who...
Sideling Creek
79 South Pine ...to Bald Hills. At one time he had two or three tracks cut through the scrub at South Pine. Before his arrival anyone travelling from the direction of " Murrumba " had to...
South Pine
81 Bald Hills ...to North Pine there were no roads, of course, but just a timber track from Bald Hills to Brisbane. For his own convenience, he therefore marked a road from the Pine...
Bald Hills
77 153.00857,-27.32112,0 Bald Hills ...roads. The present one from Brisbane to Humpybong was marked by him right from Bald Hills to the sea. When he came first to North Pine there were no roads, of course...
Bald Hills
81 153.00857,-27.32112,0 Peel Island ...know yet, we will go further on." So on and on they went from Coochimudlo to Peel Island, and from there to Green Island, then afterwards to St. Helena, and at...
Peel Island
79 QUEENSLAND ...keenly to a feast, therefore he made up his mind to have some fun OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. i.u with them first. So he got them all to get into their canoes, and leading...
QUEENSLAND
77 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Pine ...back again to their own home, that they journeyed from there overland to the Pine River. The " Marutchi " and the " Bugawan." Once upon a time, a black swan ("...
Pine
79 -79.97948,36.23708,0 Chvmchiburri ...left them. There were two old gins there, the last of the Moreton Island or Chvmchiburri tribe—^blind Kitty (" Boumbobian ") and Juno (" Junnumbin "—^who had not seen...
Chvmchiburri
78 Dunwich ...in that capacity. This soHtary member of a once numerous tribe is now at Dunwich, supposed to be dying. " Sam " they call him there, but his own real name is "...
Dunwich
75 Barrambin ...they used to play and fight together. The white boy saw the other—at Barrambin (Bowen Hills)—put through the " Kurbingai " ceremony and so made a " kippa,"...
Barrambin
71 Brisbane ...a part. He is of the same age as my father. The latter met him first in Brisbane when they were both children, and they used to play and fight together. The...
Brisbane
74 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbane ...welcome, and sent special messengers to announce their arrival The Turrbal or Brisbane tribe owned the country as far north as North Pine, south to the Logan, and...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 QUEENSLAND ...go. So he provided him with a loaf of bread and a leg of mutton. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 117 GeneraJly the blacks ate so much, then put anything over into a dilli for...
QUEENSLAND
76 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Brisbane ...miles were traversed, it did not seem to affect them. In the infant days of Brisbane Father has seen a blackfeUow many a time carry a two himdred pound bag of flour...
Brisbane
78 153.02809,-27.46794,0 QUEENSLAND ...sea beach when near the water. Whatever kind of vine was handiest at OF EARLY QUEENSLAND in the time was used—either those of the scrab or a creeper which grew on the...
QUEENSLAND
80 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Brisbane ...called " Murun Murun," was played a great deal in the early days of Brisbane on the road to and from camp. As they came along their pathway into Brisbane...
Brisbane
70 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbeme ...spoken of. The fruit of the geebung (Persoonia), or " dulandella," as the Brisbeme tribe called it, was eaten raw, and greatly relished. The natives got dUhes...
Brisbeme
76 QUEENSLAND ...of the swan. The natives caught their young and found their eggs. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 91 Ducks {" Ngau-u").—Nets were put across one end of a large lagoon which...
QUEENSLAND
77 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Brisbane ...could jump, and they would not go near one. Once when my father was a boy in Brisbane, while playing near where the Valley Union Hotel now stands with a number of...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 QUEENSLAND ...length of strong vine bent over in the middle and there fixed firmly OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 105 to the stone by means of bees' wax. The two ends of the handle were tied...
QUEENSLAND
80 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Moreton ...one another thus. They were in the habit of signalling from the two points of Moreton and Stradbroke Islands—^in those early times South Passage was very...
Moreton
80 -3.11667,53.4,0 Mud Island ...about enough of travelling about in such an absurd fashion. So landing at Mud Island, the dugong was rolled up on shore, and a big fire was made, and he was...
Mud Island
76 North Pine ...too, at times. A fishing net was called " mandin," and the portion of the North Pine River near where the railway bridge now crosses was known by that name, for it...
North Pine
76 Pine ...near Dunwich they caUed " Gumpi," at Bribie Passage, and at the mouth of the Pine River. CHAPTER IX. Food—How It was Obtained—Catching and Cooking Dugong—An...
Pine
79 -79.97948,36.23708,0 Brisbane ...and in the end they would return'fquitejstrong and well. In the early days of Brisbane, my father mentioned how he had seen this for himself to Dr. Hobbs, who was...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Neurum Neurum Creek ...called " nuram-nuram," the same name as that given to any wart. (From this Neurum Neurum Creek, near Caboolture, gets its name.) The scourge itself was " bugaram,"" and the...
Neurum Neurum Creek
77 QUEENSLAND ...there as long as possible, and the other was a very hard knock on OF EARLY QUEENSLAND, 65 the head with a waddy. The latter my father has given them many a time at...
QUEENSLAND
77 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 North Pine ...North Pine, Moreton and Bribie Islands blacks (coast tribes) had their ring at North Pine. Others again from further north, such as the Maroochy, Noosa, Kilcoy...
North Pine
81 Mount ...For instance, the natives coming from the direction of Ipswich, Cressbrook, Mount Brisbane (inland blacks) would, with the Brisbane tribe, generally use the ring...
Mount
78 -83.91965,39.02757,0 VI ...alone in camp. Being now " full dressed," he was allowed to speak. CHAPTER VI. Great Fight—Camping-ground—Yam-sticks—Boys' Weapons—Single-handed Fight—Great...
VI
77 17.41667,62.43333,0 QUEENSLAND ...might be some fifteen or twenty), the men took their charges to the OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 41 bush shade prepared for their use, and here they were placed lying down on...
QUEENSLAND
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Simdown ...some animal, fish, or bird, or perhaps by that of a hollow log, or Daylight, Simdown, Wind, Flood, Come-quick, Fetch-it, Go-away, Left-it, and so on. The name, if...
Simdown
79 Kabul ...of a " bugaram " or a " wobbalkan." Snakes.—^A carpet snake was called " Kabul," hence the name Caboolture, which meant to the Brisbane tribe " a place of...
Kabul
75 69.17233,34.52813,0 Brisbane ...these rations in the hut, in charge of an old aboriginal, went again to Brisbane, and was away this time a fortnight. Fifty head of cattle he also left in the...
Brisbane
74 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbane ...yard made, and a hut erected, he obtained flour, tea, sugar, and tobacco from Brisbane, and leaving these rations in the hut, in charge of an old aboriginal, went...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Bribie ...any black from Ipswich, as far north as Mount Perry, or from Frazer, Bribie, Stradbroke, and Moreton Islands. Of all the blackfellows who were boys when he...
Bribie
71 153.15942,-27.08367,0 North Pine ...as far OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 5 inland as Gold Creek or Moggill, as far north as North Pine, and south to the Logan, but my father could also speak to and understand any...
North Pine
81 Brisbane ...up Creek Street. Kangaroo Point, New Farm, South Brisbane, and a lot of North Brisbane were then under cultivation, but the rest was 'all bush, which at that time...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 North ...ran up Creek Street. Kangaroo Point, New Farm, South Brisbane, and a lot of North Brisbane were then under cultivation, but the rest was 'all bush, which at that...
North
78 13.908506086056846,8.46243332724727,0 Longreach Hotel ...were afterwards called the Colonial Stores, and the block of land from the Longreach Hotel to Gray's corner was occupied by the " lumber yard " (where the prisoners made...
Longreach Hotel
77 Brisbane ...my father cannot look back to this day of arrival, he remembers Brisbane town as a city of about ten buildings. Roughly speaking it was like this : At...
Brisbane
66 153.02809,-27.46794,0 's Jetty ...the journey in the pilot boat, manned by convicts, and landed at the King's Jetty—the present Queen's Wharf—the only landing place then existing. Although my...
's Jetty
75 Sydney ...father, the founder of the family, was attached to the Royal Engineers in Sydney, A 2 TOM PETRIE'S REMINISCENCES and was chosen to fill the position of...
Sydney
76 -60.1831,46.1351,0 New South Wales ...much to do with "Queensland's young days. The Petrie family landed first in New South Wales, but in 1837 (about twelve years after foundation of Brisbane) came on to...
New South Wales
78 147.01175425586197,-32.16900279777995,0 Castle ...He was born at Edinburgh, and came out here with his parents in the Stirling Castle in 1831. He is now the only surviving son of the late Andrew Petrie, a civil...
Castle
79 -92.99188,45.01247,0 St. ...in Flour — Black Police — Shooting the Blacks— Inhuman Cruelty — St. Helena Murder—Bribie Island Murder. =ERHAPS no one now living knows more...
St.
67 -8.61242,41.26556,0 Bay ...PETRIE'S REMINISCENCES. PART I. CHAPTER I. Tom Petrie—Andrew Petrie—Moreton Bay in the Thirties—Petrie's Bight First Steamer in the River—" Tom's " Childhood—"...
Bay
78 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 OR ...TRIBE) 4^ POINCIANA TREE AT " MURRUMBA" 72 KITTY OR " BOURNBOBIAN " IIJ SAM OR " PUTINGGA." ONLY LIVING MEMBER OF BRISBANE TRIBE IlS DURRAMBOI 139' JACKIE...
OR
78 13.617815,37.403181,0 Noosa ...evidently missed the flour which her own tribe got from the white people. The Noosa blacks made a dance to suit the song, and the corrobboree was considered a...
Noosa
80 153.0901,-26.39433,0 Durundur ...creek at the crossing. A day or two later, men with a bullock dray going up to Durundur with rations, passing that way, came across Brown's body lying there, and...
Durundur
81 Northern Road ...of the blacks, left them to make his way to Brisbane. He got on to the old Northern Road going to Durundur, and followed it towards Brisbane. Coming at length to a...
Northern Road
77 10.569213606024125,45.232714024137564,0 Kanaipa ...up. Bobbiwinta's wife was in one of the boats. All camped that night at Kanaipa (towards the south end of Stradbroke), and next morning the beach was searched...
Kanaipa
74 Creek ...Father has seen about five hundred aborigines at a corrobboree on Petrie's Creek, and they came from all parts—some from the far interior. Some of them there...
Creek
77 -94.97743,29.7355,0 QUEENSLAND ...the blacks employed their time in various ways ;") some would hunt, OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 23 while others made weapons preparing for the great fight which always came...
QUEENSLAND
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Japanese ...bees' wax, and these sticks were stuck here and there in the knob of hair, as Japanese places Uttle fans ; and they looked quite nice. When a good fire was raging the...
Japanese
80 QUEENSLAND ...among the Queensland aborigines, neither did they"ever kill any OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 19 one for the purpose of eating them. They were most certainly cannibals...
QUEENSLAND
75 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Queensland ...for some time on the change of food. The following passage from Dr. Lang's " Queensland," issued in 1864, was quoted once by a gentleman (Mr. A. W. Howitt), who...
Queensland
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 turkey ...17 directions, laden with good things—opossums, carpet snakes, wild turkey eggs, and yams—^he would get his share of the best—^as much as he could eat...
turkey
70 35.170129200695875,39.061295069801716,0 Brisbane ...Moimt Perry, Gympie, Bribie, and Frazer Islands, Gayndah, Kilcoy, Mount Brisbane, and Brisbane. When all turned up there numbered between 600 and 700 blacks...
Brisbane
74 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Bundaberg ...from every part of the country, some hailing from the Burnett, Wide Bay, Bundaberg, Moimt Perry, Gympie, Bribie, and Frazer Islands, Gayndah, Kilcoy, Mount...
Bundaberg
75 152.3479,-24.86621,0 Wide ...all assembling from every part of the country, some hailing from the Burnett, Wide Bay, Bundaberg, Moimt Perry, Gympie, Bribie, and Frazer Islands, Gayndah...
Wide
80 66.947223,39.656498,0 Mooloolah ...the fourth day of this journey, about 4 o'clock, the party arrived near Mooloolah, at a creek with a scrub on it, and all hands fell to making fires for cooking...
Mooloolah
74 North Pine ...Portion of Whiteside Station—Mrs. Griflfen—The First White Man's Humpy at North Pine—Dalaipi's Good Qualities—A Chat with Him — His Death—With Mr. Pettigrew in...
North Pine
76 Paddymelon ...Skins—The Aboriginal's Wonderful Tracking Powers—Wallaby, Kangaroo Rat, Paddymelon, and Bandicoot—'Possum—'Possum Rugs—Native Bear—Squirrel—Hunting on Bowen...
Paddymelon
74 Blackall Range ...Helena Murder—Bribie Island Murder. CHAPTER II. Bonyi Season on the Blackall Range—Gatherings like Picnics—Born Mimics " Cry for the Dead "—Treated like a...
Blackall Range
70 Bribie Island ...— Black Police — Shooting the Blacks— Inhuman Cruelty — St. Helena Murder—Bribie Island Murder. CHAPTER II. Bonyi Season on the Blackall Range—Gatherings like...
Bribie Island
76 Helena ...in Flour — Black Police — Shooting the Blacks— Inhuman Cruelty — St. Helena Murder—Bribie Island Murder. CHAPTER II. Bonyi Season on the Blackall...
Helena
71 -112.03611,46.59271,0 Queensland ...simply what they profess to be—" Tom Petrie's Reminiscences ; " no history of Queensland being attempted, though a sketch of life in the early convict days is...
Queensland
80 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Australia ...trust that they will be subsequently reprinted. . . . The aborigines of Australia are fast dying out, and with them one of the most interesting phases in the...
Australia
74 134.48623001282735,-25.736503338149504,0 Brisbane ...all. He was only fourteen or fifteen years old at the time, and travelled from Brisbane with a party of about one hundred, counting the women and children. They...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Bribie Island ...in the forest looking for cedar timber. An old man called Gray was killed at Bribie Island (July, 1849). This is the blacks' version as told to their friend : Gray used...
Bribie Island
79 QUEENSLAND ...aborigines always met there before travelling to the Bunya Mountains OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 9 (or, to be correct, Bon-yi Mountains—the natives always pronounced it so)...
QUEENSLAND
80 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 QUEENSLAND ...the poor unfortunate singled out his death was a certainty. Perhaps OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 33 some night he would be curled up asleep in the dark, when suddenly he was...
QUEENSLAND
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Brisbane ...my father was nine or ten years old, he saw the first execution by hanging in Brisbane—that of two aboriginals, who were found guilty of the murder of the...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Street Station ...the present Ice Works, the Government saw-pits stood, and at Roma Street Station, in the hoUow +here, the convicts made the bricks. When my father was nine or...
Street Station
68 -0.520828,51.886356,0 QUEENSLAND ...a soft sort of a fellow, had anything but a pleasant life among them. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND, 245 But even he had no complaints to make of the Petrie youngsters. The...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 QUEENSLAND ...tightened the loose one. When both legs were fixed up, a piece of OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 243 leather, made round, like the top of a boot, was put in between the iron...
QUEENSLAND
77 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Sydney ...241 My father remembers a time in those days when the vessel which came from Sydney with supphes for the settlement was a long time overdue, and it was thought she...
Sydney
79 -60.1831,46.1351,0 QUEENSLAND ...could tell to his cost, especially a heavilyironed man—poor wretch. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 241 My father remembers a time in those days when the vessel which came from...
QUEENSLAND
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 pole ...feet from it, and four prisoners dragged the cart, two on either side of the pole holding to the bars. The bars reached about to the men's waists, who as...
pole
79 26.2,43.95,0 pole ...carts were something after the style of a small dray with low wheels, and a pole instead of shafts. Each pole had two bars across, one at the end and another...
pole
78 26.2,43.95,0 Creek Street ...or what, he does not know. At the mouth of the creek which formerly ran up Creek Street, just where the steam ferry landing is now, a place was built by the prisoners...
Creek Street
77 Logan ...more then, he swore and called to the flogger to " hit fair on the back." In Logan's time a man called " Old Bumble " was the flogger. He was an inhuman wretch...
Logan
79 -81.99346,37.84871,0 Creek Street ...Flogged Himself- His Revenge—" Bribie," the Basket-maker—Catching Fish in Creek Street—Old Barn the Prisoners Worked In—" Hand carts." INDY" had an instrument he...
Creek Street
76 Creek Street ...like the others. The man who watched the land running along the river from Creek Street was called " Andy," and he had a hut built up in the fork of a gum tree on the...
Creek Street
77 Creek Street ...the river towards Roma Street Station, and from the present steam ferry at Creek Street along the river to the Government gardens. Mostly the work they did was to hoe...
Creek Street
77 Turbot Street ...up into lots who worked at New Farm, Kangaroo Point, South Brisbane, from Turbot Street along the river towards Roma Street Station, and from the present steam ferry...
Turbot Street
76 Goodna ...with gratitude Dr. Simpson, the medical officer, afterwards a resident of Goodna, and the chaplains of the penal times as their best friends. Commandant Cotton...
Goodna
76 152.89896,-27.61046,0 Devonshire ...effecting cures. He was employed as doctor for the children by the Duchess of Devonshire. He wrote the first book in the English language on 228 TOM PETRIE'S...
Devonshire
80 -64.75757575757574,32.30090909090909,0 Hills ...mind to run away and go to the blacks. So next day he started out to Bowen Hills to their camp, and there, falling in with some of his blackboy playmates, they...
Hills
77 -118.40036,34.07362,0 Bowen ...up his mind to run away and go to the blacks. So next day he started out to Bowen Hills to their camp, and there, falling in with some of his blackboy playmates...
Bowen
78 148.24754,-20.01367,0 Brisbane ...these early visits of the squatters to Brisbane says, " There was no hotel in Brisbane then, but we, were kindly and eagerly invited by the of&cers residing there to...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbane ...different tribes had a name for " ghost ; " for instance, with the Turrbal, or Brisbane blacks, it was " mogwi ; " with the Moreton Island tribe, " targan ; " Noosa...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Castle ...and the blacks assured them it was there that Brown, the mate of the Stirling Castle, had been killed and disposed of. Further on he describes a mist into which...
Castle
80 -92.99188,45.01247,0 Brisbane ...which he will take. You know that there will be no more Commandants at Brisbane ; he will take five ticket men to pull, a mast to stick up, and a bit of a sail...
Brisbane
73 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Ipswich ...of the opinion of others, his Excellency ordered the width of all streets in Ipswich as well as 270 TOM PETRIE'S REMINISCENCES' in Brisbane to be reduced to...
Ipswich
79 1.15545,52.05917,0 Brisbane ...made in different ways—of course, it could hardly be otherwise. With regard to Brisbane town, it may not be amiss to mention an instance here. Governor Gipps, when the...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 QUEENSLAND ...to the naming of the different places. In one part he says : — OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 269 " Of the cocist of the mainland between Cape Moreton and Sandy Cape little...
QUEENSLAND
74 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Bay ...Society, held at Maryborough. The river discovered was known as the Wide Bay River for some years, but afterwards was christened the " Mary " in honour of...
Bay
75 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 South ...in the sunlight, with Briby's Island, Moreton Island, and Moreton Bay to the South, and a hundred miles of coast, stretching away to the north. For two years I...
South
79 -19.17522938106053,64.14620971568705,0 Bay ...glittering in the sunlight, with Briby's Island, Moreton Island, and Moreton Bay to the South, and a hundred miles of coast, stretching away to the north. For...
Bay
79 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 Moreton Island ...sea, the sea, the open sea,' glittering in the sunlight, with Briby's Island, Moreton Island, and Moreton Bay to the South, and a hundred miles of coast, stretching away to...
Moreton Island
80 Bay ...we reached the top. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 253 Nearly the whole of the Moreton Bay district lay spread out beneath us, and about a dozen miles to the eastward of...
Bay
79 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 German ...little ' dog English,' or black, fellow slang, having been occasionally at the German Mission, near Brisbane. He led us ten or a dozen miles eastward through...
German
81 23.4110602,42.6097532,0 Brisbane ...may be said to have sprung many of the fine speciniens now to be seen about Brisbane and Sydney." On this excursion he was accompanied by his son John (so well...
Brisbane
78 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Mount Petrie ...meeting to the fact that there was a tree lying on the summit of Mount Petrie, Mr. Prout's property, which bore a relic of the early days. The tree had a...
Mount Petrie
67 Moreton ...of the Early Days Andrew Petrie's Tree—Early Opinion of the Timbers of Moreton Bay — An Excursion to Maroochy—First Specimens of Bunya Pine—First on Beerwah...
Moreton
73 -3.11667,53.4,0 Bulimba ...squatters. The land prepared for the rice was a swamp, which extended from Bulimba to Newstead, and doubtless there are those who remember the drains on this...
Bulimba
77 Bay ...was one of the good old sort. I knew him well. When he first came to Moreton Bay he came along to our home on the Bight with the other squatters. Many a time...
Bay
79 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 Street ...Brisbane the squatters had a cask of ale rolled out on to the side of George Street, opposite Gray's bootshop, and they had the head knocked in and a pint-pot...
Street
79 -2.74,51.12472,0 Brisbane ...bell-rope, but no one knew, of course. During the first electon ever held in Brisbane the squatters had a cask of ale rolled out on to the side of George...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Sydney ...to his tree being made use of any longer, and he cut the rope by which a Sydney steamer was tied. After that another place had to be found, and the steamers...
Sydney
75 -60.1831,46.1351,0 Brisbane ...an incident which happened later on, and which changed the destiny of South Brisbane. A tree which grew near the spot mentioned, was used as an anchorage for the...
Brisbane
78 153.02809,-27.46794,0 South ...mention an incident which happened later on, and which changed the destiny of South Brisbane. A tree which grew near the spot mentioned, was used as an anchorage...
South
80 -19.17522938106053,64.14620971568705,0 Brisbane ...it caused quite a stir and excitement. The steamers always anchored at South Brisbane just below the present bridge. On the arrival of one, the squatters would go...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Kurilpa ...a little and build, a man named Greenyead built a house at South Brisbane, at Kurilpa (pronounced in English, Kureelpa)—^what we now call West End. This man obtained...
Kurilpa
80 Madumbah Island ...it being low water at the time, and a heavy surf on the bar. Made way for Madumbah Island, distant about two mUes from the river, but could not affect a landing, on...
Madumbah Island
76 Redbank ...the least important being the discovery of coal at Tivoli while on a visit to Redbank station. So impressed was he with the importance of this find that he sent two...
Redbank
80 152.86667,-27.6,0 Brisbane ...from the Main Range eastward toward the coast, separating the waters of the Brisbane from those of the Mary River, and approaching the coast between the Glass House...
Brisbane
78 153.02809,-27.46794,0 England ...to the Botanical Society in London," in search of Bunya plants to send to England. He sent three, two of which Mr. Russell afterwards saw growing there. The...
England
76 Edinburgh ...country his thigh was broken ; while riding a j«)ung horse from his work in Edinburgh, the animal shied and ran him into a cab. The young fellow's leg got caught in...
Edinburgh
78 -3.19648,55.95206,0 Sydney ...boy, after vanquishing all comers at Dalby and on Darling Downs, was taken to Sydney by a Jimbour stockman, and there swept the board. This was at a time when...
Sydney
80 -60.1831,46.1351,0 Darling Downs ...athletes. The eldest, George, a short, thick black, was the crack runner on Darling Downs somewhere about 1875 or 1876, and defeated all local white 284 TOM PETRIE'S...
Darling Downs
78 Queenland ...in the end he was declared to be insane, and there being no asylum in Queenland, was sent to Sydney. The kitchen utensils' hiding place was discovered in this...
Queenland
72 -76.79126,38.80524,0 Bremer ...another piece of water-work will I mention. This time the scene was the Bremer River, and the first Roman Catholic Church was being erected at Ipswich. A pimt...
Bremer
74 Bremer ...he sat there on the log, he was found one day quite dead on the bank of the Bremer River, his head in the water ; and it was supposed that, being drunk, he lay...
Bremer
78 Pine ...were obtained from the sandy point on the Humbybong side of the mouth of the Pine River, where they were plentiful then in the required dry, dead state ; and...
Pine
79 -79.97948,36.23708,0 Brisbane ...where a buoy was anchored, then round the buoy and back to the point on South Brisbane above the present Commercial shed, then called Womsley Point after a sawyer who...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Honeysuckle Camp ...heavy sea on, we never could have reached Bracefield Head. We landed again in Honeysuckle Camp about 3 o'clock p.m.; ordered everything out of the boat to be cleaned and...
Honeysuckle Camp
80 Cape Brown ...about-ship ; OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 267 we were only about eight miles from Cape Brown. It was no use hammering about all night, and the breeze still increasing, we...
Cape Brown
76 Bracefield ...natives, who were fishing at the mouth of the passage. I got Davis and Bracefield to inquire of them where the white men's bones were buried (those of Captain...
Bracefield
73 South ...have revenge for the poisoning of their friends at some of the stations to the South. Davis then bade us good night, and left us. The greater number of our party...
South
81 -19.17522938106053,64.14620971568705,0 QUEENSLAND ...at him. With that Davis bolted off towards us, our men being scarcelyOF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 263 able to keep pace with him. I shall never forget his appearance when he...
QUEENSLAND
80 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Bay ...knew the river ; Bracefield despatched a black after him across Wrottesley Bay. He arrived about an hour before sundown. We sailed down the passage about...
Bay
77 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 New South Wales ...under the late Mr. Henry Dennis about 1843. He came from the Namoi, in New South Wales, and was an exceptionally fine specimen of an aboriginal. In manner, dignity of...
New South Wales
73 147.01175425586197,-32.16900279777995,0 Irishman ...Milton. One of these men (his companions related afterwards), a little stout Irishman, coming to a coffin lid, raised it, and exposure to the air caused an old gray...
Irishman
79 Sydney ...longer. However, at the end of a fortnight he took it into his head to walk to Sydney, and disappeared for that purpose. No one troubled over him, all feeling sure...
Sydney
81 -60.1831,46.1351,0 Moreton ...of the Early Days- Andrew Petrie's Tree—Early Opinion of the Timbers of Moreton Bay An Excursion to Maroochy—First Specimens of Bunya Pine—First on Beerwah...
Moreton
74 -3.11667,53.4,0 Logan ...— His Former Life—The "Lumber-yard"—The Prisoners' Meals—The Chain-gang—Logan's Reign—The "Crow-minders" — " Andy." 226 CHAPTER III. "Andy's" Cooking—Andrew...
Logan
74 -81.99346,37.84871,0 Road ...the Women's Quarters at Eagle Farm—A Picnic Occasion—Cutting in Hamilton Road, made originally by Women Convicts—Dr. Simpson—His After-dinner Smoke — His...
Road
75 0.133128,52.228967,0 Limestone ...Brisbane—Sir Evan Mackenzie—Mr. David Archer—Colonel Barney—An Early Trip to Limestone (Ipswich)—Two Instances of Aborigines Recovering from Ghastly Wounds...
Limestone
79 -87.9684,41.13237,0 Bribie Island ...Tom Petrie's "Marked Tree Lines"—First Reserve for Aborigines in Queensland (Bribie Island)—The Interest It Caused—Father McNab—Keen Sense of Humour—Abraham's Death at...
Bribie Island
79 Queensland ...of Tom Petrie's "Marked Tree Lines"—First Reserve for Aborigines in Queensland (Bribie Island)—The Interest It Caused—Father McNab—Keen Sense of...
Queensland
70 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Brisbane ...from Poisoning—Banjo's Brass Plate. 201 CHAPTER XXIV. Prince Alfred's Visit to Brisbane in i868^A Novel Welcome to the Duke— A Black Regiment —The Man in Plain Clothes...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Creek ...Maroochy—Tom Petrie the First White Man on Buderim Mountain—Also on Petrie's Creek—A'Specially Faithful Black — Tom Petrie and his "Big Arm"—Twenty-five...
Creek
79 -94.97743,29.7355,0 Brisbane ...Gardner—" Tom's " Attempt to Shoot Birds—Aboriginal Fights in the Vicinity of Brisbane The White Boy a Witness—" Kippa "-making at Samford—Women Fighting Over a Young...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Bay ..." Diamonds" Through the Bush—A Reason for the Murder—An Adventure Down the Bay—No Water ; and Nothing to Eat but Oysters—A Drink out of an Old Boot —The Power...
Bay
77 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 Wivenhoe Station ...Inquiry Held. 137 xii CONTENTS. CHAPTER XVIII. I'AGE A Message to Wivenhoe Station after Mr. Uhr's Murder—Another Message to Whiteside Station—Alone in the Bush—A...
Wivenhoe Station
68 VI ...of the Boys—Red Noses—" Kippa's Dress." 37 r CHAPTER VI. Great Fight—Camping-ground—Yam-sticks—Boys' Weapons—Single-handed Fight—Great...
VI
55 17.41667,62.43333,0 Creek ...the Nuts—Change of Food—^Teaching Corrobborees—Making new ones How Brown's Creek got its Name—Kulkarawa—" Mi-na Mee-na). i8 CHAPTER IV. " Turrwan" or Great...
Creek
77 -94.97743,29.7355,0 Brisbane ...Bight First Steamer in the River—" Tom's " Childhood—" Kabon-Tom"— Brisbane or Turrbal Tribe—North Pine Forty- five years ago—Alone with the Blacks—Their...
Brisbane
69 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbane ...the courtesy of Mr. F. M. Bailey, F.L.S., Government Botanist, Brisbane. Constance Campbell Petrie. " Murrumba," North Pine, October...
Brisbane
65 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Queensland ...\^ To my friend. Dr. Roth, Chief Protector of Aboriginails, Queensland, I am indebted for the proper speUing of aboriginal words, and I wish to thank...
Queensland
62 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Queensland ...^j/-rf Jti£ust. WALTER E. ROTH. PEEFACE My father's name is so well known in Queensland that no explanation of the title of this book is necessary. Its contents are...
Queensland
80 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 QUEENSLAND ...(y /'. C. Poiil^c. JM I'l'lKIE. <''i//\/,. TOM PETRIE'S REMINISCENCES OF EARLY QUEENSLAND (Dating from iSjy.) RECORDED BY HIS DAUGHTER. BRISBANE : WATSON, FERGUSON &...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Noosa ...the corrobboree was considered a grand one. Kulkarawa, after living with the Noosa blacks for about two years, was at length brought back to her own...
Noosa
79 153.0901,-26.39433,0 QUEENSLAND ..." Oh, flour, where oh where are you now that I used to eat ? Oh, OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 27 oh, take me back to my mother, there to be happy, and roam no more." She...
QUEENSLAND
80 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Noosa Head ...The boat was blown out to sea, and eventually the pair were washed ashore at Noosa Head—or as the blacks called it then, " Wantima," which meant " rising up," or "...
Noosa Head
79 Moreton Island ...examining it everywhere. 24 TOM PETRIE'S REMINISCENCES Father knew an old Moreton Island man, a great character, head of that tribe, who was a good hand at making...
Moreton Island
76 Brisbane ...Gympie, Bribie, and Frazer Islands, Gayndah, Kilcoy, Mount Brisbane, and Brisbane. When all turned up there numbered between 600 and 700 blacks. According to...
Brisbane
75 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Mount ...Bundaberg, Moimt Perry, Gympie, Bribie, and Frazer Islands, Gayndah, Kilcoy, Mount Brisbane, and Brisbane. When all turned up there numbered between 600 and 700...
Mount
79 -83.91965,39.02757,0 Islands ...from the Burnett, Wide Bay, Bundaberg, Moimt Perry, Gympie, Bribie, and Frazer Islands, Gayndah, Kilcoy, Mount Brisbane, and Brisbane. When all turned up...
Islands
81 113.96238258877432,22.249347079037797,0 Bribie ...hailing from the Burnett, Wide Bay, Bundaberg, Moimt Perry, Gympie, Bribie, and Frazer Islands, Gayndah, Kilcoy, Mount Brisbane, and Brisbane. When all...
Bribie
70 153.15942,-27.08367,0 Blackall Range ...but just camped alongside the fire with opossum rug coverings. Arriving at the Blackall Range, the party made a halt at the first bon-yi tree they came to, and a blackfellow...
Blackall Range
81 North ...Father has seen them made in the Brisbane River, in Breakfast Creek, in the North and South Pine Rivers, Maroochy, and Mooloolah Rivers, and several creeks...
North
78 13.908506086056846,8.46243332724727,0 Brisbane ...were some two feet high and six feet^de. ;^i Father has seen them made in the Brisbane River, in Breakfast Creek, in the North and South Pine Rivers, Maroochy, and...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Etc. ...which they ate roasted, as they did fish. Oysters (" kin-yingga "), Mussels, Etc.—The blacks would eat oysters raw, but were very fond of them roasted. OF EARLY...
Etc.
79 Stradbroke Island ...when the blacks used the white man's harpoon : The scene was Amity Point," Stradbroke Island. Five blacks went out in a whale boat to catch dugong, and they succeeded in...
Stradbroke Island
77 Dunwich ...blacks would catch them at Fisherman's Island, at St. Helena, at a place near Dunwich they caUed " Gumpi," at Bribie Passage, and at the mouth of the Pine...
Dunwich
80 Brisbane ...sweep through them," and never more shall one of Australia's dark children see Brisbane as God made it. " God made the country, man made the town." As the black...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Australia ...she see " the morning mist sweep through them," and never more shall one of Australia's dark children see Brisbane as God made it. " God made the country, man made...
Australia
78 134.48623001282735,-25.736503338149504,0 Brisbane ...to walk, apparently in consumption, carried carefully to the mouth of the Brisbane River, and there put into canoes and taken across to Fisherman's Island to...
Brisbane
76 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Samford ...from thi- trip next day that the blacks showed Father the " kippa " ring at Samford. If an aboriginal dreamt anything special at any time, he would always repeat...
Samford
78 152.86699,-27.3727,0 Brisbane ...forty-five years ago, to North Pine, which is sixteen miles by road from Brisbane, the country round about was all wild bush, and the land my father took up was...
Brisbane
75 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Moreton Islands ...Ipswich, as far north as Mount Perry, or from Frazer, Bribie, Stradbroke, and Moreton Islands. Of all the blackfellows who were boys when he was a boy there is only one...
Moreton Islands
80 Brisbane ...and behefs from the blacks about Brisbane. Father was very famiUar with the Brisbane tribe (Turrbal), and several other tribes all belonging to Southern Queensland...
Brisbane
78 153.02809,-27.46794,0 North Pine ...but some years ago, when they would come at times and camp round about here (North Pine), it was amusing to see the excitement when they found their old friend in the...
North Pine
79 Brisbane ...a very white-haired old man. He was found Ijdng dead one day in the mud in the Brisbane river. Later on in Ufe, when my father employed the blacks, they were always...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbane ...was chosen to fill the position of superintendent or engineer of works in Brisbane. The Commandant in the latter place had been driven to petition for the...
Brisbane
76 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Queensland ...in the James Watt, " the first steamer which ever entered what are now Queensland waters." The late John Petrie, the eldest son, was a boy at the time, and " Tom...
Queensland
73 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Queensland ...now living knows more from personal experience of the ways and habits of ? the Queensland aborigines than does my father — Tom Petrie. His experiences amongst...
Queensland
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 OR ...IN 1850 170- "MURRUMBA" 179. KING SANDY OR " KER-WALU " (TOORBAL POINT OR NINGI NINGI TRIBE) I94 ANDREW PETRIE (SENIOR) „ 219. ANDREW PETRIE's TREE ON...
OR
73 13.617815,37.403181,0 OR ...PETRIE ... ... ... ... ... ... Frontispiece ABORIGINAL BABY l6 CATCHPENNY OR " GWAI-A" (BRIBIE TRIBE) 4^ POINCIANA TREE AT " MURRUMBA" 72 KITTY OR "...
OR
76 13.617815,37.403181,0 Turrbal ...They were both got from stones, but the latter was more uncommon, and the Turrbal tribe could only obtain it by barter with inland blacks. In both instances, two...
Turrbal
76 QUEENSLAND ...be found far from its original home, having gradually made its way OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 57 after many years to scenes and pastures new. So when some instrument was...
QUEENSLAND
78 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 York ...and the coast tribes went either to Eagle Farm or to what used to be known as York's Hollow, where the Exhibition now is. The great fight I have already...
York
80 -1.08271,53.95763,0 Maroochy ...had their ring at North Pine. Others again from further north, such as the Maroochy, Noosa, Kilcoy, Durundur, and Barambah blacks would use the Humpybong ring. But...
Maroochy
77 North Pine ...tribe, generally use the ring at Samford, while the Logan, Amity Point, North Pine, Moreton and Bribie Islands blacks (coast tribes) had their ring at North...
North Pine
74 Logan ...would, with the Brisbane tribe, generally use the ring at Samford, while the Logan, Amity Point, North Pine, Moreton and Bribie Islands blacks (coast tribes) had...
Logan
79 -81.99346,37.84871,0 QUEENSLAND ...till the nose healed. Every day during the healing period water was OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 55 poured on, and the stick was turned round Then afterwards a round ball of...
QUEENSLAND
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Humpybong ...remains of a " kippa-ring," as we call it, may still be seen near Humpybong. There used to be one at North Pine, opposite to where the blacksmith's shop...
Humpybong
68 York ...my father was quite a boy he was sent once to look for some strayed cows to York's Hollow (the present Brisbane Exhibition Ground), which was all wild bush...
York
78 -1.08271,53.95763,0 QUEENSLAND ...silence : this is the " cry for the dead." Imagine it, falling OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 13 on the stillness after the night ! It comes with the dawn and the first...
QUEENSLAND
74 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Bunya Mountains ..." bunya season," and the aborigines always met there before travelling to the Bunya Mountains OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 9 (or, to be correct, Bon-yi Mountains—the natives...
Bunya Mountains
80 Bribie Island ...wife, were taken in a boat by three white men, who promised to land them at Bribie Island, as it was then the great " bunya season," and the aborigines always met there...
Bribie Island
78 QUEENSLAND ...were at times helped in their search for game by the cry of birds,. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 8i as they gathered- round a snake, for instance. Carpet snakes were caught by...
QUEENSLAND
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Queensland ...of a Rambling Life," by Thomas Archer, whose family and name are well-known in Queensland. " Our way lay for several days through the trackless bush ; we were sometimes...
Queensland
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Yokohama ...than others. The following is an extract from an interesting book printed in Yokohama—" Recollections of a Rambling Life," by Thomas Archer, whose family and name...
Yokohama
79 139.65,35.43333,0 VI ...Pinus Petriaria "—Less Title to Fame— Discoveries of Coal, etc. 247 CHAPTER VI. Journal of an Expedition to the "Wide Bay River" in 1842—Discovery of the...
VI
78 17.41667,62.43333,0 United States ...Cornell University Library. There are no known copyright restrictions in the United States on the use of the text. http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924063745495 Photo...
United States
79 -112.5748710765186,45.70207474696211,0 Green ...Stradbroke Island, and all from the Logan up to Brisbane had their camp at Green Hills (overlooking OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. i6r Roma Street Station, where the...
Green
77 -81.48317,40.94589,0 Brisbane ...in this wise : The Brisbane, Stradbroke Island, and all from the Logan up to Brisbane had their camp at Green Hills (overlooking OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. i6r Roma Street...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbane ...there were some seven hundred blacks, and they were camped in this wise : The Brisbane, Stradbroke Island, and all from the Logan up to Brisbane had their camp at...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Stradbroke Island ...themselves against the Brisbane, Ipswich, Rosewood, Wivenhoe, Logan, and Stradbroke Island tribes. Altogether there were some seven hundred blacks, and they were camped...
Stradbroke Island
75 Brisbane ...with " Dia-alin " still in front, they at length came in sight of Moimt Brisbane Station. Here Father told the black man he could go, and on receiving the...
Brisbane
74 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Delaney 's Creek ...1, a merchant of Brisbane came to him, and said that gold had been found at Delaney's Creek, or, as the blacks called it, " Nuram Nuram "—" wart " (spelt " Neurum Neurum "...
Delaney 's Creek
78 Brisbane ...into the bush. On his return from the Turon diggings in 185 1, a merchant of Brisbane came to him, and said that gold had been found at Delaney's Creek, or, as the...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 York ...Over a Young Man—" It Takes a Lot to Kill a Blackfellow "— A Big Fight at York's Hollow—A Body Eaten. ^^ECAUSE my father knew the blacks so well, he ^o" was...
York
76 -1.08271,53.95763,0 QUEENSLAND ...till we reached firm land. Then we trudged along, and, as before. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. , 153 every hole we came to was dry. At last in following a gully we came to...
QUEENSLAND
77 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Brisbane ...been skinned and eaten. A good many were wounded before this fight ended, the Brisbane side getting the better of it eventually. Afterwards, when all the tribes...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Spring Hill ...at the Hamilton scrub. The Brisbane tribe themselves kept to Bowen Hills, Spring Hill, New Farm, etc. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 163 When Father went out to the blacks...
Spring Hill
76 Bowen ...others at the Hamilton scrub. The Brisbane tribe themselves kept to Bowen Hills, Spring Hill, New Farm, etc. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 163 When Father went...
Bowen
70 148.24754,-20.01367,0 Brisbane ...at " Buyuba " (Enoggera Crossing), and others at the Hamilton scrub. The Brisbane tribe themselves kept to Bowen Hills, Spring Hill, New Farm, etc. OF EARLY...
Brisbane
75 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Bunaraba ...the Toowong Railway Station is now. The blacks called that part " Baneraba " (Bunaraba) ; Toowong was their name for the bend or pocket of the river on the left hand...
Bunaraba
80 Bribie Island ...had been spent in a general sort of fight, an Ipswich blackfellow challenged a Bribie Island black to fight with knives and waddies, accusing him of being the cause of the...
Bribie Island
81 Red Hill ...the old warriors were fighting. The Brisbane side chased the others as far as Red Hill, and then, two of the Northern blacks being wounded, one with a spear through...
Red Hill
80 -2.405378,52.695086,0 Roma ...the women were all dancing and singing on the flat in front of the present Roma Street Station. They were made to walk in pairs, six men, all decorated and...
Roma
77 148.78751,-26.56741,0 Brisbane ...Noosa, Durundur, Kilcoy, and Barambah blacks—^ranging themselves against the Brisbane, Ipswich, Rosewood, Wivenhoe, Logan, and Stradbroke Island tribes. Altogether...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Durundur ...fight came off, some Northern tribes—the Bribie, Mooloolah, Maroochy, Noosa, Durundur, Kilcoy, and Barambah blacks—^ranging themselves against the Brisbane, Ipswich...
Durundur
79 Brisbane ...days, fierce fights often took place among the aboriginals in the vicinity of Brisbane, and the white boy, who was here and there and everywhere among the blacks, of...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Amity Point ...pilot boat hove in sight, coming round Kangaroo Point on its way from Amity Point station, and she gave chase, sticking all the time to one blackfeUow. The man...
Amity Point
72 Brisbane ...harmless half-cripple aboriginal, called " Bimible Dick," who belonged to the Brisbane tribe, and who hung about the settiement. He'd had half his foot burnt off when...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Lytton ...the raft was floated, and the Custom House boat took it in hand as far as Lytton, and eventually the party of four arrived in Brisbane, after what my father now...
Lytton
76 Brisbane ...St. Helena and Wynnum, and the flood-tide seemed to be taking us towards the Brisbane River ; so we thought we would also get into the boat, lie down with...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 English ...father to cut cedar was a man from the Pine called " Wanangga," which meant in English " Left it." He was also called Jimmy. He was a specially faithful black, and...
English
81 -86.46415,38.3345,0 Creek ...miles, turning at last up a creek on the left, which is now known as Petrie's Creek, as my father was the first white visitor there. Continuing on their way some...
Creek
80 -94.97743,29.7355,0 Buderim ...Arriving there, they camped for the night, and next morning made for Buderim Mountain, and, having climbed it, the blacks informed Father that he was the...
Buderim
71 153.05705,-26.68443,0 North Pine ...Blackfellow's Grave Near " Murrumba." pN 1862 my father started from the North Pine River in a ship's longboat with about ten blacks (a few having their wives with...
North Pine
75 Brisbane ...EARLY QUEENSLAND. 189 to Mr. William Pettigrew, whose name is well known in Brisbane, and whose knowledge of timber makes interesting some remarks he writes in a...
Brisbane
78 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Queensland ..."), landed, and proceeded to make a camp. Having come from the only part of Queensland inhabited by white men—the penal settlement at Humpybong—they were, most...
Queensland
78 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Yebri Creek ...men journeyed up the then unnamed and obscure North Pine River, and entering Yebri Creek (below the homestead, " Murrumba "), landed, and proceeded to make a camp...
Yebri Creek
79 Queensland ...before Brisbane town had been founded, and in the days when Humpybong was Queensland's penal settlement, a party of men journeyed up the then unnamed and obscure...
Queensland
76 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Wynnum ..." spilt ") ; the latter was afterwards known as old King Sandy, and he died at Wynnum in 1900. In those days Maryborough consisted of only a few houses. Mr...
Wynnum
81 153.15813,-27.44527,0 Kilcoy ...did no harm were shot by the native police! And what a number were poisoned at Kilcoy ! Another thing the white man did was to teach us to drink, smoke, swear, and...
Kilcoy
81 turkey ...used to keed us supplied with fish, crabs, and oysters, and in the season when turkey eggs were found in the scrub on the Pine brought these as an offering. He was...
turkey
81 35.170129200695875,39.061295069801716,0 Breakfast Creek ...the recovered boat in tow. The wind was fair, and they landed before dark at Breakfast Creek. The three natives were told to come in the morning for their presents, which...
Breakfast Creek
79 Brisbane ...a regular gale blew from the south-east, and there was no hope of returning to Brisbane. It kept up, and at the end of three days the Petrie brothers' supply...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Bribie Island ...smd was drowned. About a week or two after this murder. Father went to Bribie Island to look for a boat which had been washed away by a flood. He started from...
Bribie Island
73 Brisbane ...come out of hospital, The story he told ran thus : A party of white men left Brisbane in a boat to go to the Caboolture River to look for cedar timber. At the mouth...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Creek ...shells. One day he and his man were getting wood just at the mouth of Norman Creek, when the blacks came upon them, and the white men, thinking it better to be...
Creek
79 -94.97743,29.7355,0 Bay ...Petty, who owned a cutter, was in the habit of using it for going down the Bay for oyster shells for making lime, and also for carrying firewood with which to...
Bay
77 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 Canoe Creek ...station—" Baneraba "—spoke of his thieving, and other Government sawyers at Canoe Creek (Oxley) made the same complaint. He was a notorious thief. He was the only...
Canoe Creek
78 Brisbane ...stayed still his cuts were healed, then he left Stradbroke and came back to Brisbane, thinking the whites would not know him again. However, it was not long...
Brisbane
78 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Nundah ..." Yilbong." He first put in an appearance at the missionary station at Nundah. (Nundah means " chain of waterholes.") Jemmy was taken in hand with some...
Nundah
73 Street ...Then I got them to sing their war song. As we passed under the arch in Queen Street, the darkie there stood still as a statue. He told me afterwards that he...
Street
79 -2.74,51.12472,0 Gardens ...regiment along through the crowd, in order to reach the landing place near the Gardens in time, the ladies cried out about their dresses, saying they would be spoilt...
Gardens
81 North Pine ...had never been seen before in Queensland. Father, who had then been living at North Pine for some nine years, went in to Brisbane to see the Duke's arrival, and Mr...
North Pine
80 Brisbane ...but when the late Duke of Edinburgh (then Prince Alfred) came to visit Brisbane in 1868 such a thing had never been seen before in Queensland. Father, who had...
Brisbane
73 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbane ...told him to kerp and wear it himself. CHAPTER XXIV. Prince Alfred's Visit to Brisbane in l868—A Novel Welcome to the Duke — A Black Regiment —The Man in Plain...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Nindery ...himself. Once, Banjo said, he and another blackfellow were nearly poisoned at Nindery cattle station, on the Maroochy. A white fellow there gave them a bit of flour...
Nindery
80 QUEENSLAND ...that good old man had died. Although old. Banjo was very active in OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 207 his movements, and it was wonderful how quickly he could climb a tree with...
QUEENSLAND
78 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Gympie ...tell him if they found anything similar. This was long before the finding of Gympie. One day old Governor, who had been away at the Blackall, came in great...
Gympie
79 152.66499,-26.18979,0 QUEENSLAND ...them, but their leader said to stick to it, and they would OF EARLY QUEENSLAND 197 get through all right, and he kept the boat's head straight to the waves...
QUEENSLAND
70 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Fifeshire ...the comparative waste on which he first landed. " Mr. Petrie was a native of Fifeshire, in Scotland, and was bom in June, 1798. In early youth he removed to...
Fifeshire
79 Brisbane ...sure the others would not see them want. " No, but they will take us back to Brisbane, and when there they will get drunk, and beat us. We would like to stay...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Bribie Island ...Hon, J. Douglas and several Ministers of the Crown journeyed by steamer to Bribie Island, in order to pick a suitable spot there. They were accompanied by my father...
Bribie Island
77 Point ...quite a youngster, my father marked a road for the squatters from Cleveland Point to the Eight Mile Plains, so that they could bring their wool down to the store...
Point
78 -122.51318,38.11547,0 Europe ...the Royal Family of Russia to travel with them from St. Petersburg through Europe to Rome, etc., and back. He studied homeopathy, or rather that system of curing...
Europe
77 27.5,42.5,0 Ireland ...be of interest : — " When Dr. Simpson was a young man he was in the army in Ireland—^whether as a surgeon, or as a private or otherwise, I do not remember. He...
Ireland
78 Brisbane ...Reign—The " Crow-minders " — "Andy." iE in these days can hardly imagine Brisbane without horses in drays and carts and traps of all sorts, but at first when...
Brisbane
75 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Logan ...— His Former Life—The "Lumber-yard"—The Prisoners' Meals—The Chain-gang—Logan's Reign—The " Crow-minders " — "Andy." iE in these days can hardly imagine...
Logan
74 -81.99346,37.84871,0 QUEENSLAND ...right, though the wound left a very large scar. My father OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 225 who went to see the black several times during his enforced quietude, says...
QUEENSLAND
69 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Street ...heal so quickly. Another time an incident of the same sort happened in Queen Street, opposite where the Bank of New South Wales now stands. Two blacks were...
Street
79 -2.74,51.12472,0 Brisbane ...stockyard built. Whenever he had occasion after this to go for a few days to Brisbane, he found on his return that everything was all right, just as already related...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbane ...Dalaipi," " Dal-ngang," and four other blacks. When they got to the mouth of Brisbane River, a fair wind was blowing towards St. Helena, and the natives suggested...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Sideling Creek ...father, and the latter had ten square miles in his name. His boundary was from Sideling Creek down the coast right round to Humpybong. And now to return to " Dalaipi." When...
Sideling Creek
81 QUEENSLAND ...own tongue, and know their ways, and will be all right." "Very well," OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. i»i she said, " I will go to town with you to-morrow, and make arrangements...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 North Pine ...already belonged to Mrs. Griffen (Captain Griffen's widow). After looking at North Pine, Father and " Dal-ngang " went on to the mouth of the Pine River, and then...
North Pine
79 North Pine ...Him His Death—With Mr. Pettigrew in Early Maryboro' —A Very Old Land-mark at North Pine—Proof of the Durability of Blood-wood Timber—The Word " Humpybong." iOST people...
North Pine
79 Creek Street ...and on to cross over the creek that used to OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 177 run up Creek Street. Pausing on the site of the present Gresham Hotel, they had a look at their...
Creek Street
78 Brisbane ...corner. The police had hidden near by, and a blackfellow (Wumbungur) of the Brisbane tribe was sent on to catch " DundaUi." The pair had a struggle, then the...
Brisbane
78 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Bribie Island ...of Mr. Gregor and Mrs. Shannon, and the sawyers at North Pine ; also Gray, on Bribie Island, and others. Father remembers when he was captured. A brickmaker named Massie...
Bribie Island
80 Glass House Mountains ...the way, saying he would know where he was all right when he got to the Glass House Mountains, as he had been there before when living with the blacks. So Father took him to...
Glass House Mountains
74 Northern Road ...the one from South Pine to Cash's Crossing, and from the lagoons on the old Northern Road to Terror's Creek on the Upper Pine. The latter has since been altered. When...
Northern Road
78 10.569213606024125,45.232714024137564,0 Morayfield ...which went away round by Sideling Creek. So he marked the present road to Morayfield. Then from there he marked the road for Captain Whish to his property. Also he...
Morayfield
76 152.94907,-27.10876,0 Irishman ...Father took him down to the Lagoons on the way to Humpybong, and there the Irishman OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 213 afterwards took up country and settled. He also...
Irishman
77 Humpybong ...about land for cattle. Father took him down to the Lagoons on the way to Humpybong, and there the Irishman OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 213 afterwards took up country and...
Humpybong
75 Brisbane ..." had to go up to Sideling Creek to get on to the Old Northern Road to Brisbane. Then the first picnic party who ever went to Humpybong—Sir James Garrick and...
Brisbane
73 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Old Northern Road ...the direction of " Murrumba " had to go up to Sideling Creek to get on to the Old Northern Road to Brisbane. Then the first picnic party who ever went to Humpybong—Sir James...
Old Northern Road
80 Whiteside Station ...Whiteside Station—Alone in the Bush—A Coffin Ready Waiting— • The Murder at Whiteside Station—Piloting "Diamonds" Through the Bush—A Reason for the Murder—An Adventure Down...
Whiteside Station
78 Whiteside Station ...XVIII. A Messagi to Wivcnhoe Station after Mr. Uhr's Murder—Another Message to Whiteside Station—Alone in the Bush—A Coffin Ready Waiting— • The Murder at Whiteside...
Whiteside Station
81 Enoggera ...a big ship to Sydney." " When he come back ? " and so on. That night at Enoggera, there were some two hundred blacks in camp, and Mr. Ridley and Mr. Hausmann...
Enoggera
74 QUEENSLAND ...At length they began to tire, being kept at it too long, and one OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 143 by one got up and walked away till at last almost all had gone off to...
QUEENSLAND
76 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Sydney ...Scrub " (now known as Enoggera Crossing), and as he was obliged to leave for Sydney next morning he would like to talk to the blacks that night. Father said it was...
Sydney
79 -60.1831,46.1351,0 Dawson ...asked Father to manage it for him. He was about to journey to the Dawson River to see the blacks there, and wanted some words of the language that...
Dawson
68 -96.05448,44.93274,0 Brisbane ...I am informed that the well-known printing of him by Mr. Oscar Fristrom, of Brisbane, was painted not without a great deal of trouble, after the man had died. I am...
Brisbane
78 153.02809,-27.46794,0 QUEENSLAND ...than for writing peoples' lives. IIURRAMBOI. [ To /act- /. /j()- OF EARLY QUEENSLAND, 139 " To show you how stubborn Davis was later on, I said to him some time...
QUEENSLAND
77 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 QUEENSLAND ...Gunemba " (Cape Moreton), where a large number of blacks were camped. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 135 In from the beach kippas were going through with their ceremony, and the...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Green ...on." So on and on they went from Coochimudlo to Peel Island, and from there to Green Island, then afterwards to St. Helena, and at each place they camped, and were...
Green
81 -81.48317,40.94589,0 Island ...kept along the shore for a long, long way, and at length came to Russell Island, and landing there made a camp. Of course, every one looked forward to seeing...
Island
75 -91.09621,30.21742,0 South Passage ...Where they had landed was what is now known as an end of Moreton Island, near South Passage. In those days there was no passage, but one long island, so the...
South Passage
80 43.150494,36.35647,0 Pine ...a black snake started out in a canoe, in time of flood, from the mouth of the Pine River. Marvellous as it may seem, their canoe was just a shell of the Moreton...
Pine
80 -79.97948,36.23708,0 QUEENSLAND ...My word, I'll have a good feed ! " The log called out, " Come along. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 127 grandmother. Why have you been so long ? " And the grandmother came along...
QUEENSLAND
80 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Moreton Island ...flowers when she left them. There were two old gins there, the last of the Moreton Island or Chvmchiburri tribe—^blind Kitty (" Boumbobian ") and Juno (" Junnumbin...
Moreton Island
77 Wynnum ..." cotton bush " or " talwalpin " (Hibiscus tiliaceus), found on the beach at Wynnum or elsewhere. It was the root-bark of the two former which was used. When...
Wynnum
79 153.15813,-27.44527,0 Moreton Island ...the mainland, though they grew plentifully on the islands. The Stradbroke and Moreton Island gins were especially clever at dilli making. Rush ones were very nice for fish...
Moreton Island
80 Etc. ...or three were always kept burning on some clay at one end of the canoe. Signs, Etc.—When travelling from one place to another the blacks, if they wished to let...
Etc.
81 QUEENSLAND ...P. Agn:-,' \ ONI.V I.I\'ING MEMTiKR BRISBANE 1 RIBK. To face /. iiS. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND, 119 adays if he sees my father, and he feels himself a most...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Bowen ...used to play and fight together. The white boy saw the other—at Barrambin (Bowen Hills)—put through the " Kurbingai " ceremony and so made a " kippa," but he...
Bowen
77 148.24754,-20.01367,0 North Pine ...their arrival The Turrbal or Brisbane tribe owned the country as far north as North Pine, south to the Logan, and inland to Moggill Creek. This tribe all spoke the same...
North Pine
80 Helena ...again and again, for the dugong remained in the water. However, at St. Helena, the owner, looking all round him, said, " Well, chaps, Mud Island is the last...
Helena
73 -112.03611,46.59271,0 Helena ...to Peel Island, and from there to Green Island, then afterwards to St. Helena, and at each place they camped, and were disappointed again and again, for the...
Helena
73 -112.03611,46.59271,0 St. ...Coochimudlo to Peel Island, and from there to Green Island, then afterwards to St. Helena, and at each place they camped, and were disappointed again and...
St.
81 -8.61242,41.26556,0 QUEENSLAND ...were pounded up and made into cakes, and so roasted on the cinders. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 93 The wild yam (Dioscorea transversa) was found on the edge of the scrubs...
QUEENSLAND
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 QUEENSLAND ...The natives called one of the Glass House Mountains " Chirburkakan." OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 89 " Kak-an " meant " biting," hence the mountain was called after a " biting...
QUEENSLAND
80 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Red Hill ...companions hunting on Bowen Terrace, Tenerifie, Bowen Hills,^-Spring Hill, Red Hill, and all round where the hospital now stands. What changes can take place in a...
Red Hill
77 -2.405378,52.695086,0 Spring Hill ...with his dark companions hunting on Bowen Terrace, Tenerifie, Bowen Hills,^-Spring Hill, Red Hill, and all round where the hospital now stands. What changes can take...
Spring Hill
78 Bowen ...day has he spent with his dark companions hunting on Bowen Terrace, Tenerifie, Bowen Hills,^-Spring Hill, Red Hill, and all round where the hospital now stands...
Bowen
81 148.24754,-20.01367,0 QUEENSLAND ...the tree to where the 'possum was, if by putting their hand down OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 87 the hollow limb they could reach him, they did so, and dragging him quickly...
QUEENSLAND
76 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 QUEENSLAND ...times at Humpybong, and they were also plentiful in Bribie Passage. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 83 There were no steamers or white men to disturb them, and the natives had it...
QUEENSLAND
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Moggill Creek ...in, was called " magil " (moggill), and here we have the meaning of the name Moggill Creek. Hedgehogs (" kaggarr ").—^The natives could tell when these had passed by...
Moggill Creek
79 Bribie Island ...catch the blacks, but it was of no use, as the latter by then were all down in Bribie Island, and the soldiers might just as well have tried to fly as catch them. Father...
Bribie Island
81 Wivenhoe Station ...was a young boy of fourteen or fifteen years, he was sent with a fetter to Wivenhoe Station, on the Brisbane 'River, just after the murder by the blacks of Mr. Uhr there...
Wivenhoe Station
77 New South Wales ...end of Darling Downs was " Combo," who came over from the Big River, in New South Wales, sometime before 1850 with the late Mr. O'Grady Haly, of Taabinga, on the...
New South Wales
74 147.01175425586197,-32.16900279777995,0 Brisbane ...empty bucket amid great cheering. When people commenced to open Uttle shops in Brisbane and put up signboards, the young squatters used to go at night and change these...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 QUEENSLAND ...pretty names Uttey were called. They, however, swerved to thfe side OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 281 and to that, but they would not pull. The parson tried a long time ; and...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Uttey ...and coaxings, and the bullocks doubtless were flattered at the pretty names Uttey were called. They, however, swerved to thfe side OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 281 and...
Uttey
78 Brisbane ...wilip*: happened later or. ijuri'j '••^i-f. h chaKs;«<; 'j^dtiwiiny of i-x «th Brisbane. A tre* v, iju'n fg'-> ne^ai th*" r;' S mentioned, was used as an .:; n-...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbane ...down the river to the north side of the stream, so spoiling the chance South Brisbane had of first place. This tree was very large in the trunk, but some of the...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Sydney ...out for the Pine River, and having got a cargo there of cedar logs, left for Sydney, her builder, a Mr. Cameron, being in charge. But the Uttle vessel was doomed...
Sydney
79 -60.1831,46.1351,0 Pine ...to stop her. After she weis rigged and finished up she started out for the Pine River, and having got a cargo there of cedar logs, left for Sydney, her...
Pine
77 -79.97948,36.23708,0 Brisbane ...joke. It was not often in those days that a steamer came to " Moreton Bay," as Brisbane was then called ; so whenever one OF EARLY QUEENSLAND 279 did come it caused...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbane ...to settle a little and build, a man named Greenyead built a house at South Brisbane, at Kurilpa (pronounced in English, Kureelpa)—^what we now call West End. This...
Brisbane
77 153.02809,-27.46794,0 QUEENSLAND ...us. I made signs to them to carry us ashore, and they immediately OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 259 jumped into the water up to their arm-pits. I was the first who mounted...
QUEENSLAND
77 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Brisbane ...those days, and which reads as follows : — " Wednesday, 4th May, 1842 : Left Brisbane town at daybreak ; pulled down to the first flat (Breakfast Creek) ; set sail...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Mary ...Island—Mr. Russell Sea-sick. pN 1842, Mr. Andrew Petrie discovered the Mary River. On this trip he was accompanied by Mr. Henry Stuart Russell, the Hon. W...
Mary
73 61.83031,37.59378,0 New Zealand ...this scrub I found a species of pine, not known before. It is similar to the New Zealand Cowrie pine, and bears a cone. It forms a valuable timber, etc." This evidently...
New Zealand
79 England ...reported his discoveries in the colonies, whereas Mr. BidwiH sent the cone to England, and thus got the credit of being the discoverer of the tree." In Mr. Andrew...
England
80 Araucaria ...head, and containing kemals as large as an almond. Its botanical name, the Araucaria BidwiUi, was given to it because Mr. BidwiU is supposed to be the first white...
Araucaria
77 Glass House Mountains ...Brisbane from those of the Mary River, and approaching the coast between the Glass House Mountains and the Mooroochie River, its length being about another one hundred and fifty...
Glass House Mountains
79 Durandur ...They (the blacks) were quiet and peaceable and not nearly so numerous as at Durandur, except in the bunya season, when they mustered in large numbers from great...
Durandur
78 London ...to fame. I can recollect cones of the Bunnia being sold at Covent Garden, London, for ten guineas each." Yet another extract from Mr. Archer's book : — " They...
London
76 -81.23304,42.98339,0 London ...Wide Bay in 1842) a Mr. BidweU, " an attache to the Botanical Society in London," in search of Bunya plants to send to England. He sent three, two of which Mr...
London
75 -81.23304,42.98339,0 Bay ...no doubt, tried to explain this to us, but our ignorance of the Moreton Bay blacks' slang prevented us from understanding him." The writer came across Mr...
Bay
74 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 Moreton ...Beerwah,' no doubt, tried to explain this to us, but our ignorance of the Moreton Bay blacks' slang prevented us from understanding him." The writer came across...
Moreton
76 -3.11667,53.4,0 QUEENSLAND ...stood at the end of his walk, putting up his fists as though to fight OF EARLY QUEENSLAND 311 it, talking all the time. He made quite a plain beaten track to the tree...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Humpybong ...by him diving. They had been thrown in just where the steamer from Humpybong now lands her passengers. Another man who worked at the same time as "...
Humpybong
69 Brisbane ...had been thrown into the water, and an old blackfellow, " Bentobin," a head Brisbane man, was got to pick up " Cranky Tom's " tracks, which he did very soon, and...
Brisbane
78 153.02809,-27.46794,0 QUEENSLAND ...grog.' To get him out of their sight was all they thought of, so he OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 307 triumpantly returned to me wagging his tongue, and carefully fondling a...
QUEENSLAND
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Island ...for the lime-making was obtained in much the same way from King Island or " Winnam " (breadfruit), as the blacks called it then. The punt was taken...
Island
66 -91.09621,30.21742,0 pole ...so that the men could walk from end to end, and each man had a long light pole with which to shove the boat along. They kept in as close to the shore as was...
pole
76 26.2,43.95,0 Brisbane ...a Diver. S^^sa^S an instance of the great changes whic"h have taken place in Brisbane in even less than one lifetime, it is interesting to follow my...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbane ...and well pulled, the winners, who were Amity Point blacks, beating the others (Brisbane tribe) by a length. The successful crew were fine, big, strong men, and good...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Street ...though it was further up the stream—in fact, it stood in'the present Queen Street, near where Shaw's ironmongery shop used to be, now occupied by...
Street
77 -2.74,51.12472,0 Brisbane ...their horses across behind the ferry boats. The very first racecourse in Brisbane was started by the squatters on the ground now occupied by the present...
Brisbane
75 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbane ...Early Racecourses— Pranks the Squatters Played— Destiny of South Brisbane Changed—First Vessel Built in Moreton Bay—The Parson's Attempt to Drive...
Brisbane
67 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Noosa ...a place named by Mr. Petrie Bracefield Cape, but during later years renamed Noosa. And it may here be remarked that it was little short of criminal to substitute...
Noosa
78 153.0901,-26.39433,0 QUEENSLAND ...loaded and ready to start, but lay at anchor opposite Kangaroo Point, OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 299 waiting for the tide, which would not suit till eight o'clock ; and Walter...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 QUEENSLAND ...imitate a drunken man very well. He often used to come to " Cocky " OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 291 and assume drunkenness for the sake of hearing the bird string on a lot of...
QUEENSLAND
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 English ...and professional running was at its height. " Sambo " or Samuels defeated the English champion, Harry Hutchens twice, and thus earned the title of champion of the...
English
80 -86.46415,38.3345,0 Ipswich ...1876, and defeated all local white 284 TOM PETRIE'S REMINISCENCES runners at Ipswich. The other son, " Sambo," better known as Charlie Samuels, a long, lean boy...
Ipswich
79 1.15545,52.05917,0 Moreton ...left them. One of the first questions he asked me was about the settlement at Moreton Bay, which I gave him to understand was now a free settlement, and a...
Moreton
80 -3.11667,53.4,0 New Zealand ...this scrub I found a species of pine not known before. It is similar to the New Zealand Cowrie pine, and bears a cone. It forms a valuable timber. The blacks make...
New Zealand
78 English ...the benefit of those unacquainted with the form of spelling used, English spelling given in brackets in cases of some difference). Place. 31 6 LIST OF...
English
68 -86.46415,38.3345,0 Stradbroke Island ...fish—^in fact a bittern—once set a dugong net at " Dumba " (part of Stradbroke Island). Next morning, to his delight, when he went to look at the net, .he found he...
Stradbroke Island
70 Bay ...River. Marvellous as it may seem, their canoe was just a shell of the Moreton Bay chesnut (" mai ") — probably a gigantic one ! The black snake was ill, so...
Bay
80 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 QUEENSLAND ...! The child was hunted and killed, and the sister was carried off. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 129 The Snake's Journey. A very long time ago a carpet snake and a black...
QUEENSLAND
78 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 QUEENSLAND ...correctly. She began to feel flustered, and wondered what on earth OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 125 was the matter, and yet all the time she knew quite well that " some one "...
QUEENSLAND
78 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Turrbal ...This man is of interest, as being the last of his tribe —the old Brisbane or Turrbal tribe, of which North Pine formed a part. He is of the same age as my father...
Turrbal
79 Moreton ...dillies were made from bark-string, such as that of the " ngoa-nga " (Moreton Bay fig-tree), the " braggain '» (Laportea sp.), the " nannam " vine (Malaisia...
Moreton
72 -3.11667,53.4,0 QUEENSLAND ...niugam " (Melo diadema), to bail out with if any leak should start, OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 99 and a ball of whitish clay to putty up the hole. (See Dr. Roth's Bulletin...
QUEENSLAND
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Brisbane ...instance, they were in the habit of doing this from Kangaroo Point to North Brisbane. Signs they called " mirrimbul," and they could understand one another thus...
Brisbane
78 153.02809,-27.46794,0 North ...instance, they were in the habit of doing this from Kangaroo Point to North Brisbane. Signs they called " mirrimbul," and they could understand one another...
North
72 13.908506086056846,8.46243332724727,0 Bay ...people came the blacks soaked com in the same way to soften it. The Moreton Bay chesnut (Castanospermum Australe), or " mai," was also poisonous. The nuts were...
Bay
78 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 Ceikes ...from the pods 'and soaked in water These were then pounded up and made into Ceikes, ana roasted. If not prepared so they were poisonous. The natives declared that...
Ceikes
78 turkey ...easily discovered, as they were quite big, sometimes two feet high. A scrub turkey was called " wargun. Swans.—^The Turrbal or Brisbane tribe (not the natives of...
turkey
78 35.170129200695875,39.061295069801716,0 Wynnum ...Helena was a great camping place for them in those days, and the blacks from Wynnum used to go across in their canoes to catch them there, watching for calm...
Wynnum
79 153.15813,-27.44527,0 Enoggera Railway ...creeks and rivers which railways now span. Breakfast Creek, near where the Enoggera Railway crosses (Barrambin) was a great place for fish. At a certain time of the year...
Enoggera Railway
77 Breakfast Creek ...and crabs one caught in the quiet creeks and rivers which railways now span. Breakfast Creek, near where the Enoggera Railway crosses (Barrambin) was a great place for...
Breakfast Creek
79 Hills ...he spent with his dark companions hunting on Bowen Terrace, Tenerifie, Bowen Hills,^-Spring Hill, Red Hill, and all round where the hospital now stands...
Hills
79 -118.40036,34.07362,0 Hotel ...my father was a boy in Brisbane, while playing near where the Valley Union Hotel now stands with a number of blackboys, throwing small spears, etc., he almost...
Hotel
77 Caboolture ...tribe to another. These latter my father has known to walk from Brisbane to Caboolture in a day. Of course, the blacks nowadays lack energy, but in those times it was...
Caboolture
78 152.9511,-27.08465,0 OR ...one thousandfold. But, alas ! one could not treat mosquitoes so. L_„ KITIY OR " BOURXBOBIAN " (MORKTON HLANIO. Photo ly C. /, Pouiuf.] \To jaoc p...
OR
78 13.617815,37.403181,0 Gahnia ...saplings about five feet long and half-an-inch thick, or from strong reeds (Gahnia aspera) growing in the swamps or waterholes. All of them, however, were chewed...
Gahnia
78 QUEENSLAND ...round bent on rescue if necessary, and they laughed heartily at thfr. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 113 way the child, to prevent himself sinking, would paddle with his hands and...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Miora ...travel to the other end of the continent. A Manila man (who afterwards died at Miora, Dunwich, and whose daughter lives there now) once taught a song he knew to the...
Miora
81 Hills ...length brought back to her own people. Father happened to be out at the Bowen Hills or " Barrambin" camp, with two or three black boys, looking for some cows, at...
Hills
80 -118.40036,34.07362,0 Bowen ...was at length brought back to her own people. Father happened to be out at the Bowen Hills or " Barrambin" camp, with two or three black boys, looking for some...
Bowen
81 148.24754,-20.01367,0 Durundur ...them to make his way to Brisbane. He got on to the old Northern Road going to Durundur, and followed it towards Brisbane. Coming at length to a creek which runs into...
Durundur
80 Blackall Range ...a long time, and the bon-yi season coming round, he accompanied them to the Blackall Range, joining in the feast there. Before the bon-yi gathering had broken up. Shake...
Blackall Range
78 Turrbal ...REMINISCENCES ence to a young gin—Kulkarawa—^who belonged to the Brisbane or Turrbal tribe. A prisoner, a coloured man (an Indian), Shake Brown by name, stole a...
Turrbal
79 Brisbane .../TOM PETRIE'S REMINISCENCES ence to a young gin—Kulkarawa—^who belonged to the Brisbane or Turrbal tribe. A prisoner, a coloured man (an Indian), Shake Brown by name...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Stradbroke ...one of the boats. All camped that night at Kanaipa (towards the south end of Stradbroke), and next morning the beach was searched and searched, but nothing, not even a...
Stradbroke
79 QUEENSLAND ...a shark was seen floating quietly about, and all remaining hope went. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 25 What seemed to strike the blacks was that they had seen no sign of the man...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Coochimudlo Island ...is the whole story : — Three boats went out in winter time turtling from Coochimudlo Island (" Kutchi-mudlo "—^red stone). It was after the advent of the whites, and the...
Coochimudlo Island
75 QUEENSLAND ...wore in this knob httle sticks ornamented with yellow featiiers from OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 21 the cockatoo's topknot. The feathers were fastened to the ends of the...
QUEENSLAND
80 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Queensland ...my father's opinion on the subject :—" At certain gatherings of some tribes of Queensland young girls are slain in sacrifice to propitiate some evil divinity, and their...
Queensland
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Bon-yi Mountains ...in the way of food during these gatherings, and, besides, on their way to the Bon-yi Mountains they travelled along the coast as much as was possible, and got fish and...
Bon-yi Mountains
80 Creek ...the Nuts—Change of Food—Teaching Corrobborees—Making new ones How Brown's Creek got its Name—Kulkarawa—" Mi-na " (Mee-na). pT has often been given out as a...
Creek
76 -94.97743,29.7355,0 Kilcoy ...Wide Bay, Bundaberg, Moimt Perry, Gympie, Bribie, and Frazer Islands, Gayndah, Kilcoy, Mount Brisbane, and Brisbane. When all turned up there numbered between 600...
Kilcoy
81 Street Railway Station ..." making. The inland tribes went from the Samford ring to the site of the Roma Street Railway Station in Brisbane, and the coast tribes went either to Eagle Farm or to what used to...
Street Railway Station
81 Durundur ...Pine. Others again from further north, such as the Maroochy, Noosa, Kilcoy, Durundur, and Barambah blacks would use the Humpybong ring. But it depended on which...
Durundur
78 Kilcoy ...at North Pine. Others again from further north, such as the Maroochy, Noosa, Kilcoy, Durundur, and Barambah blacks would use the Humpybong ring. But it depended on...
Kilcoy
79 Noosa ...ring at North Pine. Others again from further north, such as the Maroochy, Noosa, Kilcoy, Durundur, and Barambah blacks would use the Humpybong ring. But it...
Noosa
77 153.0901,-26.39433,0 Bribie Islands ...use the ring at Samford, while the Logan, Amity Point, North Pine, Moreton and Bribie Islands blacks (coast tribes) had their ring at North Pine. Others again from further...
Bribie Islands
81 Samford ...(inland blacks) would, with the Brisbane tribe, generally use the ring at Samford, while the Logan, Amity Point, North Pine, Moreton and Bribie Islands blacks...
Samford
76 152.86699,-27.3727,0 Cressbrook ...would fix up. For instance, the natives coming from the direction of Ipswich, Cressbrook, Mount Brisbane (inland blacks) would, with the Brisbane tribe, generally use...
Cressbrook
80 QUEENSLAND ...hoops of fire, lighting up the Uttle sober faces of the boys as they OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 53 sat round the ring watching the performance. And the white boy looking on...
QUEENSLAND
80 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Brisbane ...of other tribes is not unlike it. First a circle — called " bul " by the Brisbane blacks, and " tur " by the Bribie Island tribe—was formed in the ground, very...
Brisbane
75 153.02809,-27.46794,0 OR ...these threats ended in a challenge from four or five a side to the CATCHrENNV OR "GWA1-a" (BRIBIE TRIBE). [ To /ace f*. 46, OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 47 same number...
OR
80 13.617815,37.403181,0 South Pine ...has seen them made in the Brisbane River, in Breakfast Creek, in the North and South Pine Rivers, Maroochy, and Mooloolah Rivers, and several creeks. The grubs in the...
South Pine
81 Brisbane ...with their feet. f- Cobra.—This was another food the blacks were fond of. The Brisbane tribe called it " kan-yi." It is a long and white grub which grows in old logs...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 QUEENSLAND ...shallow parts of a creek would be blocked by stakes and ==1 OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 73 bushes put across, and in this wall of bushes two or three openings would...
QUEENSLAND
72 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Amity Point ...in " Genesis of Queensland " (page 290), talking of a scene he saw enacted at Amity Point, but no other place, says : — " It was so curious, that the evidence of my own...
Amity Point
80 Moreton Island ...the blacks. At all times porpoises would be spoken of with affection by these Moreton Island blacks (the ngugi tribe), who said they never failed when called to drive in...
Moreton Island
80 Moreton Island ...helped to catch fish. When my father was a boy, his father sent men down to Moreton Island to work at the pilot station there. Once he accompanied these men to the...
Moreton Island
78 Stradbroke ...of great amusement. One of these five blacks (" Noggi ") is alive yet at Stradbroke. Porpoises.—The blacks never by any chance killed porpoises, for, they said...
Stradbroke
75 Caboolture ...the same name as that given to any wart. (From this Neurum Neurum Creek, near Caboolture, gets its name.) The scourge itself was " bugaram,"" and the latter was what...
Caboolture
80 152.9511,-27.08465,0 QUEENSLAND ...son or daughter, not their mother's. And if a man died and left OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 6r a wife and family, his brother was supposed to take the widow ; if there...
QUEENSLAND
75 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Blackall Range ...side of the head I got from him when a boy." CHAPTER II. Bonyi Season on the Blackall Range—Gatherings like Picnics—Bom Mimics— " Cry for the Dead "—Treated like a Prince...
Blackall Range
79 Bribie ...This is the blacks' version as told to their friend : Gray used to go to Bribie with a cutter for oysters ; he had a blackboy as a help when gathering the...
Bribie
75 153.15942,-27.08367,0 Pine ...disposed of, the natives all got into the boat and came to the mouth of the Pine River, where they left the boat, and walking round on^the 10. TOM PETRIE'S...
Pine
78 -79.97948,36.23708,0 Helena ...on. Well, these men, instead of doing as they had proinised, landed at St. Helena, and there set nets for catching dugong, acting as though they had not the...
Helena
77 -112.03611,46.59271,0 St. ...on. Well, these men, instead of doing as they had proinised, landed at St. Helena, and there set nets for catching dugong, acting as though they had not...
St.
73 -8.61242,41.26556,0 QUEENSLAND ...upwards, and so with wonderful rapidity the ascent was accomplished,. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 79 This helper in the way of dimbing was called " yurol," after the vine it...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Etc. ...when raw they are not to be sneezed at, if one is only hungry enough." Ants, Etc.—Father has never seen the blacks about here eat ants of any kind or their...
Etc.
79 Rivers ...made in the Brisbane River, in Breakfast Creek, in the North and South Pine Rivers, Maroochy, and Mooloolah Rivers, and several creeks. The grubs in the swamp...
Rivers
78 6.909087215208239,4.879902046147146,0 QUEENSLAND ...dead. This tree was burnt by bush fires, so, though part of it may OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 35 still be seen, there is, of course, no trace of anything exciting in the...
QUEENSLAND
78 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Helena ...and then brutally flogged till he died. Three men were once murdered at St. Helena Island by aboriginals, and this is the side of the question given by " Billy...
Helena
78 -112.03611,46.59271,0 Sandgate ...that the blacks were killing some of the cattle ; so a man was sent to where Sandgate now is to ask assistance from the black police, who were stationed there. 8 TOM...
Sandgate
79 Bowen ...had looked everjTwhere, they found him at length in the blacks' camp out Bowen Hills way. There was one blackfellow at that time these children used to...
Bowen
75 148.24754,-20.01367,0 pole ...head he put on a pole, and then wrapping himself in a sheet with the pole, he looked to the frightened blacks' imagination for all the world like a...
pole
71 26.2,43.95,0 Bay ...the first steamer which ever came up the river {the James Watt stayed in the Bay). When she rounded Kangaroo Point, with her paddles going, the blacks, who were...
Bay
79 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 South ...by the salt-water creek which ran up Creek Street. Kangaroo Point, New Farm, South Brisbane, and a lot of North Brisbane were then under cultivation, but the...
South
79 -19.17522938106053,64.14620971568705,0 Queensland ...but in 1837 (about twelve years after foundation of Brisbane) came on to Queensland in the James Watt, " the first steamer which ever entered what are now...
Queensland
75 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Queensland ...a civil engineer, who, as every one interested knows, had much to do with "Queensland's young days. The Petrie family landed first in New South Wales, but in 1837...
Queensland
77 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Stirling ...land. He was born at Edinburgh, and came out here with his parents in the Stirling Castle in 1831. He is now the only surviving son of the late Andrew Petrie, a...
Stirling
76 -3.93682,56.11903,0 Queensland ...the wish to do the little I can in that way. My father has spent his life in Queensland, being but three months old when leaving his native land. He was born...
Queensland
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Bribie Island ...— Black Police — Shooting the Blacks— Inhuman Cruelty — St. Helena Murder—Bribie Island Murder. =ERHAPS no one now living knows more from personal experience of the...
Bribie Island
76 Moreton ...320 TOM PETRIE'S REMINISCENCES. PART I. CHAPTER I. Tom Petrie—Andrew Petrie—Moreton Bay in the Thirties—Petrie's Bight First Steamer in the River—" Tom's "...
Moreton
78 -3.11667,53.4,0 Logan ...for a Charles Dickens — "Cranky Tom "—" Deaf Mickey "—Knocked Silly in Logan's Time— "Wonder How Long I've Been Buried"—Scene in the Road Which is Now Queen...
Logan
73 -81.99346,37.84871,0 Moreton ...the Squatters Played —Destiny of South Brisbane Changed—First Vessel Built in Moreton Bay—The Parson's Attempt to Drive Bullocks—A Billy-goat Ringing a Church Bell...
Moreton
80 -3.11667,53.4,0 Mooloolah ...Blood-wood Timber—The Word " Humpybong." 178 CHAPTER XXII. A Trip in 1862 to Mooloolah and Maroochy—Tom Petrie the First White Man on Buderim Mountain—Also on...
Mooloolah
79 York ...Over a Young Man—" It Takes a Lot to Kill a Blackfellow " A Big Fight at York's Hollow—A Body Eaten. 155 CHAPTER XX. Early Aboriginal Murderers — " Millbong...
York
75 -1.08271,53.95763,0 Brisbane ...of the Bar in South Passage. 120 CHAPTER XVII. Dutamboi—His Return to Brisbane—Amusing the Squatters—His Subsequent Great Objection to Interviews—Mr. Oscar...
Brisbane
72 153.02809,-27.46794,0 St. ...in Flour — Black Police — Shooting the Blacks— Inhuman Cruelty — St. Helena Murder—Bribie Island Murder. CHAPTER II. Bonyi Season on the Blackall...
St.
67 -8.61242,41.26556,0 Bay ...29 CONTENTS. PART I. CHAPTER I. Tom Petrie—Andrew Petrie—Moreton Bay in the Thirties—Petrie's Bight First Steamer in the River—" Tom's " Childhood—"...
Bay
68 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 Moreton ...and Deformed People. 29 CONTENTS. PART I. CHAPTER I. Tom Petrie—Andrew Petrie—Moreton Bay in the Thirties—Petrie's Bight First Steamer in the River—" Tom's "...
Moreton
81 -3.11667,53.4,0 Brisbane ...other continental countries. In this connection I may mention that the Brisbane or Turrbal tribe is identical with the Turrubul tribe of Rev. W. Ridley. It was...
Brisbane
73 153.02809,-27.46794,0 COOKTOWN ...your kindly bearing me in mind as a subscriber to the volume. I am. Sir, etc., COOKTOWN, ^j/-rf Jti£ust. WALTER E. ROTH. PEEFACE My father's name is so well known in...
COOKTOWN
81 145.136,-15.43912,0 Brisbane ...Early Racecourses— Pranks the Squatters Played —Destiny of South Brisbane Changed—First Vessel Built in Moreton Bay—The Parson's Attempt to Drive...
Brisbane
67 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbane ...Tom " Punished for Smoking—" Ticket-of-Leave " Men—First Racecourse in Brisbane —Harkaway—Other Early Racecourses— Pranks the Squatters Played —Destiny of...
Brisbane
73 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Maroochy ...Petrie's Tree—Early Opinion of the Timbers of Moreton Bay An Excursion to Maroochy—First Specimens of Bunya Pine—First on Beerwah Mountain—"Recollections of a...
Maroochy
76 Maroochy ...for the tree was named after him—Araucaria Bidwilli. During an excursion to Maroochy in those early years Mr. Petrie succeeded in procuring what has been spoken of...
Maroochy
78 England ...after he gave a Mr. Bidwell specimens, and that gentleman forwarding them to England, got the credit of the discovery, for the tree was named after...
England
79 Bay ...Lang speaks first of the Araucaria Cunninghami, or the Moreton Bay pine. He ends his description by saying : " There are two varieties of this...
Bay
65 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 Moreton ...penal settlement." Dr. Lang speaks first of the Araucaria Cunninghami, or the Moreton Bay pine. He ends his description by saying : " There are two varieties of this...
Moreton
80 -3.11667,53.4,0 QUEENSLAND ...MrANDREW PETRIE'S TREE ON SUMMIT OF MOUNT PETRIE. \To /ace /. .'-fS. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 249 Lees seconded the motion, which was unanimously agreed to." A...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 North Pine ...carved the name ' A. Petrie, 1838., This was the father of Mr. T. Petrie, of North Pine, and the grandfather of the present member for Toombul. Mr. Thorn thought the...
North Pine
79 Tallin ...the lost ones while the raft was being made, told them how the black man {" Tallin- gal-lini ") had followed their tracks. He seemed to know Grandfather's from...
Tallin
78 Newstead ...The land prepared for the rice was a swamp, which extended from Bulimba to Newstead, and doubtless there are those who remember the drains on this land. After all...
Newstead
77 147.16667,-41.43333,0 North Pine ...young wife seemed to make him jealous. When he had no one left he stayed at North Pine for a long time, and used often to tell his master lots of yarns about...
North Pine
78 Miss ...evidently interested Governor Banjo. One day he took a strange fancy. Going to Miss Petrie he made her understand that he wished to be tied up as the monkey was...
Miss
81 Brisbane ...at the picture the old man made, and then he would jerk out to me, ' My word—Brisbane—policeman — hanker—Mese Nittery.' Meaning that when he got back to Brisbane, he...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 QUEENSLAND ...hung round his neck by a chain, and mighty proud he was of it, too. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 203 My father and his brothers and sister used to try and teach Banjo to say...
QUEENSLAND
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Brisbane ...many a bit of fun and a good laugh. Father was the first to take him into Brisbane. This was on the journey from Bribie to Brisbane after the trip there in search...
Brisbane
76 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Maroochy ...hands there. It jSeemed that he and another blackfellow.were in a canoe on the Maroochy River harmlessly getting cobra—" kambo " the blacks there called it—^when a...
Maroochy
81 Creek ..." Puram " often accompanied my father on his trips for cedar to Petrie's Creek, though not one of the " brand brigade." At one time, when my father had gone...
Creek
75 -94.97743,29.7355,0 Maroochy ...yet another occasion, when about to return to the Pine, the mouth of the Maroochy River was reached, but the sea was so rough and the breakers were running so...
Maroochy
75 St. ...employed by two ladies of the Royal Family of Russia to travel with them from St. Petersburg through Europe to Rome, etc., and back. He studied homeopathy, or...
St.
80 -8.61242,41.26556,0 Indian ...to go into the doctor's kitchen, and saw there the man cook with a large Indian pipe. The youngster watched the man and saw him place the bowl on a little...
Indian
75 Street Station ...so with both hands, walked off to camp, which was near the present Roma Street Station. There he had to lie on his back, and the blacks put very fine charcoal and...
Street Station
74 -0.520828,51.886356,0 Sydney ...were all right, and also that the cedar timber was loaded on the vessels for Sydney. At other times he took a survey of the Bay and the soundings of the different...
Sydney
79 -60.1831,46.1351,0 Limestone ...fixed up the tent for his father. Next day they went on again up the river to Limestone, where they stayed a couple of days at Mr. Thorn's house, while the head of the...
Limestone
80 -87.9684,41.13237,0 Brisbane ...a station for about three days by Sir Evan Mackenzie. On his way back to Brisbane, Mr. Petrie met and camped with Mr. David Archer, who was out looking for...
Brisbane
75 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Staplyton ...of two aboriginals, who were found guilty of the murder of the surveyors, Staplyton and Tuck. The execution took place at the Windmill, which was fixed up for the...
Staplyton
76 Sydney ...waters of Moreton Bay." Mr. Andrew Petrie, who before his departure from Sydney was attached to the Royal Engineers there, examined the windmill on his...
Sydney
75 -60.1831,46.1351,0 Brisbane ...says : " The year 1837 marked two important events in the early history of Brisbane—^the arrival of the Petries, and of the first steamer which ploughed the waters...
Brisbane
77 153.02809,-27.46794,0 pole ...the style of a small dray with low wheels, and a pole instead of shafts. Each pole had two bars across, one at the end and another three feet from it, and four...
pole
80 26.2,43.95,0 France ...flog him. However, at last a black man named Punch (from the Isle of France) came forward. Father remembers the incident well, and can almost now see...
France
71 2.5522572848112075,46.557575440537526,0 Brisbane ...Sketch of His Life taken from the Brisbane Courier—Born in 1798—His Duties in Brisbane—Sir Evan Mackenzie—Mr. David , Archer—Colonel Barney—An Early Trip to Limestone...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Kedron Brook ...into Brisbane with a number of others to attend a corrobboree, and camped at Kedron Brook with some Durundur blacks, thinking he would be safest with them. But one of...
Kedron Brook
79 QUEENSLAND ...were other fish, etc., and everything went well, and the settlement OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 2i: bid fair to became self-supporting, when in 1879 the Palmer Government did...
QUEENSLAND
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Brisbcine ...shark, and stingaree oils. These and sometimes a turtle, were all sold in Brisbcine in exchcinge for the rations, which afterwards were doled out to the blacks by...
Brisbcine
76 Sandgate ...when a boy he piloted the first picnic party through the bush to where Sandgate is now, though he did not mark the road to that place. 214 TOM PETRIE'S...
Sandgate
73 Eight Mile Plains ...my father marked a road for the squatters from Cleveland Point to the Eight Mile Plains, so that they could bring their wool down to the store at Cleveland. Also when...
Eight Mile Plains
72 Street ...bad enough. Many a time he has seen members of the chain gang flogged in Queen Street in the old archway at the prisoners' barracks. They got from fifty to two...
Street
81 -2.74,51.12472,0 Brisbane ...own use. Captain Logan met his death in 1830, and my grandfather arrived in Brisbane in 1837, so the latter's son, " Tom," did not witness the worst of the...
Brisbane
78 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Roma ...Kangaroo Point, South Brisbane, from Turbot Street along the river towards Roma Street Station, and from the present steam ferry at Creek Street along the...
Roma
77 148.78751,-26.56741,0 Brisbane ...the reputation of being very clever at curing illnesses in those early days of Brisbane. My father remembers him well, also his friend, W. H. Wiseman. A writer in a...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 English ...for the children by the Duchess of Devonshire. He wrote the first book in the English language on 228 TOM PETRIE'S REMINISCENCES homeopathy, and the doctors were so...
English
80 -86.46415,38.3345,0 Maroochy ...and party on his (" Tom " Petrie's) marked tree line to Petrie's Creek, on the Maroochy River. Then when the Kne to Gympie was marked, he went with Cobb and Co. to...
Maroochy
81 Upper Pine ...and from the lagoons on the old Northern Road to Terror's Creek on the Upper Pine. The latter has since been altered. When Davis (or " Duramboi ") was asked to...
Upper Pine
73 QUEENSLAND ...down to the Lagoons on the way to Humpybong, and there the Irishman OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 213 afterwards took up country and settled. He also took him to Humpybong, and...
QUEENSLAND
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Humpybong ...Old Northern Road to Brisbane. Then the first picnic party who ever went to Humpybong—Sir James Garrick and some other gentlemen—came to him and got him to...
Humpybong
78 Bald Hills ...marked a road from the Pine to reach this, which is the present one in use to Bald Hills. At one time he had two or three tracks cut through the scrub at South...
Bald Hills
80 153.00857,-27.32112,0 Mary ...Russell, the Hon. Mr. Wriothesley, and others, Mr. Petrie explored the Mary River, which had not before been entered by a boat ; and it was while on this...
Mary
73 61.83031,37.59378,0 Brisbane ...were in extreme peril of their lives, but they succeeded in bringing back to Brisbane some specimens of the fruit. He was, in fact, the first to discover the bunya...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Bunya Bunya ...the deceased gentleman made an exploring trip into what is now known as the Bunya Bunya country, and the party were in extreme peril of their lives, but they...
Bunya Bunya
78 31.01667,-26.55,0 Mount Petrie ...by taking bearings from the hill on the south side of the river, now known as Mount Petrie. In 1840, accompanied by his son John, two or three convicts, and...
Mount Petrie
80 QUEENSLAND ...coming along Queen Street. So I hurried the darkies off in a trot OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 211 to meet it. I had already told off one blackfellow to go to the arch near...
QUEENSLAND
77 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Street ...the procession came in sight near the Post Of&ce, coming along Queen Street. So I hurried the darkies off in a trot OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 211 to meet it. I...
Street
71 -2.74,51.12472,0 Sydney ...the Ordnance Department. Shortly afterwards the late Colonel Barney arrived in Sydney with a detachment of the Royal Engineers, and to this officer the control of...
Sydney
81 -60.1831,46.1351,0 Jamison Street ...in superintending the erection of the doctor's well-known buildings in Jamison Street, and subsequently entered into business for himself. While thus engaged his...
Jamison Street
73 Sydney ...to New South Wales in 1831, on the representations of Dr. Lang. Arriving in Sydney in that year, in the ship Stirling Castle, he was employed in...
Sydney
78 -60.1831,46.1351,0 Moggill Creek ...the road to the station. After leaving Brisbane, the first night was spent at Moggill Creek, and the next day the two, after travelling a good many miles, came to a...
Moggill Creek
80 Bay ..."Diamonds" Through the Bush—A Reason for the Murder—An Adventure Down the Bay—No Water ; and Nothing to Eat but Oysters—A Drink out of an Old Boot —The Power...
Bay
76 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 Brisbane ...and gave the order, " Right about face, quick march ! " and off they went to Brisbane. It seems that when Humby went for the police, Chief Constable Fitzpatrick was...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Sydney ...asked,- " Where that fellow stop ? " " Oh, he has gone away in a big ship to Sydney." " When he come back ? " and so on. That night at Enoggera, there were some...
Sydney
79 -60.1831,46.1351,0 Brisbane ...to their different huts. So the white men bade them goodnight, and returned to Brisbane, and the boy was not sorry when the end of his walk came, as it was late. " I...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Enoggera Crossing ...at " Buyuba," or as the whites called it, " Three Miles Scrub " (now known as Enoggera Crossing), and as he was obliged to leave for Sydney next morning he would like to talk...
Enoggera Crossing
80 Moreton ...this time there was very little communication between Sydney and Moreton Bay—as Brisbane was then called. Only about once a month or two a vessel would...
Moreton
67 -3.11667,53.4,0 Sydney ...he had lived with. At this time there was very little communication between Sydney and Moreton Bay—as Brisbane was then called. Only about once a month or two a...
Sydney
78 -60.1831,46.1351,0 QUEENSLAND ...did." Father tried to coax and get round him, but he would not move. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 141 However, nothing daunted, the young fellow went again next day, and at...
QUEENSLAND
80 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Queensland ...days the Rev. W. Ridley came to Brisbane to learn what he could about the Queensland aborigines, and he sought out my father, who was quite a lad at the time, to...
Queensland
76 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Bribie Island ...that way—the Ipswich and Brisbane, the Brisbane and the Pine, the Pine and Bribie Island, and the Bribie Island and Maroochy blacks, etc. Often in this way aborigines...
Bribie Island
77 York ...Ridley -A Trip tO' Enoggera for Information—Explorer Leichhardt—An Incident at York's- Hollow—An Inquiry Held. HAVE spoken of the way in which different aboriginal...
York
81 -1.08271,53.95763,0 Brisbane ...his parents, to whom he never came back. CHAPTER XVII. Duramboi—His Return to Brisbane—Amusing the Squatters—His Subsequent Great Objection to Interviews—Mr. Oscar...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Stradbroke Island ...from " Wiji-wiji-pi " (Swan Bay) was once traveUing along the outside beach of Stradbroke Island when he came to a hut and a campfire. Now, he wanted a firestick, so took just...
Stradbroke Island
81 Enoggera Crossing ...and others swam across. Then some Northern tribes hunted at " Buyuba " (Enoggera Crossing), and others at the Hamilton scrub. The Brisbane tribe themselves kept to Bowen...
Enoggera Crossing
74 Brisbane ...tribes separated, hunting all round about. Some, such as the Ipswich, Mount Brisbane, and Wivenhoe tribes, hunted in the scrub which used to stand near where the...
Brisbane
78 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Red Hill ...with a war whoop from the top of the hill, where the road turns to go up Red Hill, down to where the gins were dancing and singing, and waving about their...
Red Hill
75 -2.405378,52.695086,0 Bribie ...the corrobboree a fearful fight came off, some Northern tribes—the Bribie, Mooloolah, Maroochy, Noosa, Durundur, Kilcoy, and Barambah blacks—^ranging...
Bribie
69 153.15942,-27.08367,0 Brisbane ...one of his own, when he was a very small boy. When the Petries first came to Brisbane they lived, as I have said, in a buildingon the site of the present Post and...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Neurum Neurum Creek ...order to get a couple of natives to show them a short cut across the ranges to Neurum Neurum Creek. He succeeded in persuading two to accompany them—one an old fellow called "...
Neurum Neurum Creek
81 Caboolture ...the town, leading the pack mule, and the first night got as far as the Upper Caboolture, to the old deserted station where Mr. Gregor and Mrs. Shannon had been...
Caboolture
79 152.9511,-27.08465,0 Wynnum ...fast asleep. As far as we could see, we were somewhere between St. Helena and Wynnum, and the flood-tide seemed to be taking us towards the Brisbane River ; so...
Wynnum
80 153.15813,-27.44527,0 Logan ...it was, go to where the sawyers were cutting the timber in the scrub up the Logan or Albert River (it is not remembered which), and pick it up on their return...
Logan
78 -81.99346,37.84871,0 Logan ...Mr. Petrie, senior, if he would allow " Tom," his son, to go with him to the Logan River, as he wished to take possession of a raft of cedar timber he had bought...
Logan
79 -81.99346,37.84871,0 OR ...along they would just roar with laughter. As my father chaffed them KING SANDY OR "KER-WALLl" (TOORBAL POIN'I :iR NlXlil NINIW I'KIHE). t To /'aci p. 10-/. OF...
OR
81 13.617815,37.403181,0 Brisbane ...you to cut a mark like that on the logs, on our arms ; so that when we go to Brisbane, every one will know we belong to you." Father said no, that he would just mark...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Australia ...age of the tree at 1824 or '25, when the limb was blown off ? People in West Australia have been boasting of some of their durable timbers, but I think the bloodwood...
Australia
79 134.48623001282735,-25.736503338149504,0 QUEENSLAND ...strong link with the past. Ten years ago, my father showed the limb OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 189 to Mr. William Pettigrew, whose name is well known in Brisbane, and whose...
QUEENSLAND
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 North Pine ...at Humpybong. Almost forty-five years ago, when my father first settled at North Pine, it was the honest old " Dalaipi " who showed his young master this fallen limb...
North Pine
77 Humpybong ...the only part of Queensland inhabited by white men—the penal settlement at Humpybong—they were, most probably, soldiers in charge of a gang of prisoners, and were...
Humpybong
77 North Pine ...penal settlement, a party of men journeyed up the then unnamed and obscure North Pine River, and entering Yebri Creek (below the homestead, " Murrumba "), landed...
North Pine
77 Brisbane ...killing me they were very kind, and I am alive yet." In the year 1824, before Brisbane town had been founded, and in the days when Humpybong was Queensland's...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 QUEENSLAND ...went, as a boy, to the " bon-yi " feast (on the Blackall) with the OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 187 blacks, he was introduced as belonging to " Dalaipi's" tribe. On another...
QUEENSLAND
78 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 QUEENSLAND ...? That is the way a good many whites were killed. Let us see a white OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 185 man to-day and speak to him, and then even though we do not see him again...
QUEENSLAND
80 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 QUEENSLAND ...shot, poisoned, and had our daughters, sisters, and wives taken OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 183 from us. Could you blame us if we killed the white man ? If we had done...
QUEENSLAND
75 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 St. ...looked forward to a feast of dugong. To this my father agreed. At that time St. Helena was nearly all scrub, and some white men were Uving there who...
St.
78 -8.61242,41.26556,0 Brisbane ..." Dalaipi." When everything had been finally settled, my father started from Brisbane in a boat to go to North Pine with rations, taking with him " Dalaipi," "...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Himipybong ...and " Dal-ngang " went on to the mouth of the Pine River, and then round to Himipybong and Deception Bay. From there they went to Caboolture, and always as they...
Himipybong
78 Pine ...looking at North Pine, Father and " Dal-ngang " went on to the mouth of the Pine River, and then round to Himipybong and Deception Bay. From there they went to...
Pine
78 -79.97948,36.23708,0 North Pine ...Portion of Whiteside Station— Mrs. Griffen— The First White Man's Humpy at North Pine—Dalaipi's Good Qualities—A Chat with Him His Death—With Mr. Pettigrew in Early...
North Pine
77 Whiteside Station ...Pine as a Place to Settle—The Birth of " Murrumba" — A Portion of Whiteside Station— Mrs. Griffen— The First White Man's Humpy at North Pine—Dalaipi's Good...
Whiteside Station
68 Gresham ...EARLY QUEENSLAND. 177 run up Creek Street. Pausing on the site of the present Gresham Hotel, they had a look at their victim, and found that his arm had come free of...
Gresham
80 -122.43148,45.49818,0 Brisbane ...caught turtle and dugong. Once a week he left his home at Amity and went to Brisbane to sell whatever he had, returning with rations. One night this man, with four...
Brisbane
78 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Bribie Island ...of as " Dundalli " — the native name for the wonga-wonga pigeon—hailed from Bribie Island. Like " Millbong Jemmy," he was said to have had a hand in the murder of Mr...
Bribie Island
78 Hills ...of them. The next day Father went out to the aboriginal camp at Bowen Hills, and took with him the presents he had promised the three natives. Arrived...
Hills
72 -118.40036,34.07362,0 Bribie Island ...in circulation that the little band had all been murdered by the blacks on Bribie Island, and, "if we had not seen you when we came along, we intended shooting some...
Bribie Island
77 Bribie Island ...to look for cedar timber. At the mouth of the river they picked up three Bribie Island blacks, thinking they would be of use in guiding them to the timber that...
Bribie Island
75 Petty ...then the gun—muzzle foremost. As the latter was pulled down the cock caught in Petty's shirt cuff, and the weapon went off, shooting the man through the body. The...
Petty
81 Mud Island ...However, at St. Helena, the owner, looking all round him, said, " Well, chaps, Mud Island is the last island—we wiU cut up the dugong there, and have a feed." They were...
Mud Island
81 Norman ...burn the shells. One day he and his man were getting wood just at the mouth of Norman Creek, when the blacks came upon them, and the white men, thinking it better to...
Norman
81 -97.43948,35.22257,0 Hills ...other murders. Father often met " Millbong Jemmy " in the bush at Bowen Hills, and had a yam with him, and gave him a piece of tobacco. To the white boy he...
Hills
74 -118.40036,34.07362,0 North Pine ...He was blamed for the murder of Mr. Gregor and Mrs. Shannon, the sawyers at North Pine, and several other murders. Father often met " Millbong Jemmy " in the bush at...
North Pine
78 Brisbane ...his face otherwise disfigured with a waddie, but he lived. Word was sent to Brisbane about this murder, with the request that some one would be sent out to try and...
Brisbane
78 153.02809,-27.46794,0 WATSON ...Plant. LIST OF PLACES, NAMES, PLANTS, and TREES. 319 Whites' Name. PRINTED BY WATSON, FERGUSON & CO. QUERN ST., BRISBANE.
WATSON
80 -100.46708,38.48196,0 QUEENSLAND ...would fill the baskets whilst the remaining pair carried them into. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. .^"j the water, dipping them up and down to rid the shells of all sand. The...
QUEENSLAND
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Bay ...when he was a boy, As already mentioned, a punt did the carting from the Bay,, and as a protection to them from the blacks, " Tom " was sent with the crew...
Bay
75 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 Street ...great fun—my father among them. Can one imagine such a procession now in Queen Street ? The policemen took turns to hold and to wheel, and so they went on till they...
Street
81 -2.74,51.12472,0 QUEENSLAND ...up to Mr. Andrew Petrie's for a wheelbarrow ! Picture the scene ! OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 313 The old woman was lifted into the barrow, then one man held her while the...
QUEENSLAND
77 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Brisbane ...to work, but the manager took the first opportunity of sending him back to Brisbane, fearing something might happen the man when he took it into his head to go off...
Brisbane
77 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Creek Streets ...just behind where the Commercial Bank is now, at the corner of Queen and Creek Streets. Before any trace was found of the missing lad two men were sent by Mr. Petrie...
Creek Streets
75 QUEENSLAND ...of timber required, the amount of nails, and everything else needful; OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 297 or if it was something to be built of brick or stone, he was scarcely out...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 QUEENSLAND ...to remark, " Poor fellow ! " before he got down and walked away. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND 293 Although " Cocky " was forty-five years old when he died, he might have...
QUEENSLAND
76 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Miss ...saying, " Poor Joey—^poor fellow ! " and Cocky was walking about watching. Miss Petrie doctored her bird, then put him on her bed on a piece of flannel. "...
Miss
77 Miss ...He kept away from this cask for sometime afterwards—^wouldn't go near it. The Miss Petrie of those days had a king parrot who was a great pet, and was very...
Miss
80 Toombul ...bird loved to break up with his beak. The present Andrew Petrie (member for Toombul), grandson to the old gentleman, teUs this story. He, a boy at the time...
Toombul
78 QUEENSLAND ...when that was done, turning his old head round, and directing with OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 287 his claw, it was, " Just here," then again in another place, " Just here,"...
QUEENSLAND
78 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Brisbane ...eldest son) was a boy, in fact not long after the arrival of the family in Brisbane, " Cocky," then a little fledgling, was presented to him by a prisoner named...
Brisbane
77 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Bracefield ...I despatched our two blacks and one of the strange ones with a letter to Bracefield. He could not read, but one of the blacks mentioned my name to him when he gave...
Bracefield
75 Bribie ...Creek) ; set sail ; wind from the south-west ; made the north end of Bribie's Island Passage at dusk ; could not distinguish ,the passage. Lay at anchor...
Bribie
71 153.15942,-27.08367,0 Brisbane ...prisoners of the Crown formed the boat's crew, and two aborigines belonging to Brisbane made up the party. They left in an old Government boat called a " gig,"...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Island ..."—Blackfellow with a Watch—Mr. McKenzie's Murdered Shepherds—Frazer Island—Mr. Russell Sea-sick. pN 1842, Mr. Andrew Petrie discovered the Mary River. On...
Island
70 -91.09621,30.21742,0 VI ...commercial worth, that we can realise their importance to the full." CHAPTER VI. Journal of an Expedition to the "Wide Bay River" in 1842—Discovery of the...
VI
79 17.41667,62.43333,0 Sydney ...was he with the importance of this find that he sent two sample casks to Sydney ; it was tested, and pronounced highly satisfactory. At a later period, it may...
Sydney
75 -60.1831,46.1351,0 Mount Beerwah ...the Government Engineer, on his expedition mentioned above, when he ascended Mount Beerwah, and found the Mooroochie River. He, however, was not a scientific botanist...
Mount Beerwah
79 Gracemere garden ...FEMINISCENCES to you the bunya tree, as you have all seen one growing in the Gracemere garden, where it thrives, though it is not a native of that district. The tree when in...
Gracemere garden
79 Wide ...of redtape." Mr. RusseU then speaks of meeting (shortly after returning from Wide Bay in 1842) a Mr. BidweU, " an attache to the Botanical Society in London," in...
Wide
79 66.947223,39.656498,0 Queensland ...bridge now crosses the river. Mr. Henry Stuart Russell, author of " Genesis of Queensland," refers to the Bunya pine. He says : — " The Bunnia-Bunnia (Araucaria...
Queensland
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Pine ...' (prisoners), so that fellow not run away." The " kippa " ring at the Pine owned the curious native name of " Nindur-ngineddo," which means a " leech...
Pine
73 -79.97948,36.23708,0 North Pine ...two or three convicts, and his son John. The first night they camped at North Pine, where the " kippa " ring was then, and, of course, roimd about was all wild...
North Pine
74 Brisbane ...amongst hostile tribes. Another time my grandfather journeyed from Brisbane to where Caboolture is now, to obtain a block of timber from a Bunya pine. This...
Brisbane
69 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbane ...north side of the stream, so .si>i!if> .;; thr. chai^ce So6|l| Brisbane. had of first place. Ths • 'r«e was very Is^ge in«^ trunk, btiit some of the...
Brisbane
65 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Sydney ...to his tree being aaade use ns atjy 1- i,ger, AT«t is. a the rope by which a Sydney steamer was tied ,kiu- limt another place had to be found, and the steanrif^s...
Sydney
79 -60.1831,46.1351,0 Sydney ...it was thought that as the crew only had enough provisions to take them to Sydney they had set out and perished at sea through starvation or otherwise. " Poor...
Sydney
77 -60.1831,46.1351,0 Keppel ...a mystery, then on the 20th October, 1848, she was found on the beach at Keppel Bay, water-logged, and with her mast cut out. The cargo was quite...
Keppel
75 6.23333,52.00417,0 Miss ...the bottle did not break, but this was noticed, and a crowd gathering round Miss Petrie, got her to go out in a boat and finish her work. The Selina slid into...
Miss
78 Moreton ...she left for Sydney again. On the 15th May, 1847, the first vessel built in Moreton Bay w£is launched. She saw the light at Petrie's Bight, where the Howard Smith...
Moreton
78 -3.11667,53.4,0 South ...come it caused quite a stir and excitement. The steamers always anchored at South Brisbane just below the present bridge. On the arrival of one, the squatters...
South
78 -19.17522938106053,64.14620971568705,0 Kureelpa ...Greenyead built a house at South Brisbane, at Kurilpa (pronounced in English, Kureelpa)—^what we now call West End. This man obtained a license for a public house...
Kureelpa
80 South ...commenced to settle a little and build, a man named Greenyead built a house at South Brisbane, at Kurilpa (pronounced in English, Kureelpa)—^what we now call West...
South
81 -19.17522938106053,64.14620971568705,0 Gardens ...ditch some feet wide were jumped. Then the course continued round towards the Gardens, the same ditch and fence being jumped again lower down ; then up round by the...
Gardens
80 Cape ...trip. He telis how they christened what is now Double Island Point " Brown's Cape," because Bracefield and the blacks assured them it was there that Brown, the...
Cape
79 26.592,37.676,0 QUEENSLAND ...five-oared kind of mongrel whale-boat, which was built by a prisoner OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 271 here, in a fashion, which he will take. You know that there will be no...
QUEENSLAND
80 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Wide ...the Queen's Park escaped being cut up into town lots." But to hail back to Wide Bay and the trip undertaken in what Mr. Russell terms a "nondescript boat." "...
Wide
77 66.947223,39.656498,0 Brisbane ...width of all streets in Ipswich as well as 270 TOM PETRIE'S REMINISCENCES' in Brisbane to be reduced to sixty-six feet. Eventually the surveyors, after a good deal of...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Wide ...Society, held at Maryborough. The river discovered was known as the Wide Bay River for some years, but afterwards was christened the " Mary " in honour...
Wide
70 66.947223,39.656498,0 Bay ...land. The blacks informed me there is a river about ten miles beyond the Wide Bay River, and another more to the north-westward, and a third larger than all the...
Bay
80 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 Cape Brown ...day set sail about 11 o'clock with a south-west wind. About three miles off Cape Brown the wind got more southerly. Continued about the same course and distance we...
Cape Brown
78 Island ...remained there for the night. " The blacks are very numerous on Frazer Island ; there is a nut they find on it which they eat, and the fish are...
Island
73 -91.09621,30.21742,0 Wrottesley ...knew the river ; Bracefield despatched a black after him across Wrottesley Bay. He arrived about an hour before sundown. We sailed down the passage about...
Wrottesley
66 Wide ...where we encamped. " 7th : Set sail about eight a.m., wind south-east, for Wide Bay, taking Bracefield with us ; landed about four o'clock ; distance thirty...
Wide
77 66.947223,39.656498,0 Bracefield ...just as I was looking round at him. The men at the camp were very kind to Bracefield, got him washed, gave him clothing, and something to eat and drink, and he felt...
Bracefield
76 Stirling ...and the blacks assured them it was there that Brown, the mate of the Stirling Castle, had been killed and disposed of. Further on he describes a mist into...
Stirling
71 -3.93682,56.11903,0 William Street ...of a billy-goat, and, tying him to the bell rope of the Church of England in William Street, " planted " to see the fun. " Billy " commenced toring the bell furiously...
William Street
79 Australian ...with the prisoners—two or three hundred of them. In a book written of the Australian pioneers by Mr. Nehemiah Hartley, mention is made of this bird as " the...
Australian
76 New South Wales ...O'Grady Haly, of Taabinga, on the Burnett. The party travelled up from New South Wales, via Logan and Nanango. " Combo," soon afterwards, went to work on Jimbour...
New South Wales
73 147.01175425586197,-32.16900279777995,0 Breakfast Creek ...May, 1842 : Left Brisbane town at daybreak ; pulled down to the first flat (Breakfast Creek) ; set sail ; wind from the south-west ; made the north end of Bribie's Island...
Breakfast Creek
78 Queensland ...came to visit Brisbane in 1868 such a thing had never been seen before in Queensland. Father, who had then been living at North Pine for some nine years, went in to...
Queensland
76 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 QUEENSLAND ...and knowing at once what was wrong, they ran to the river and drank a OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 209 lot of salt water, which made them very sick, but cured them. " My word !...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Marsa ...away, he ran to the Rev. James Love's house near by, calling loudly, " Marsa, Marsa, come on—Missus cranky ! " And then he bethought him of the handcuffs and "...
Marsa
80 14.49528,35.87917,0 Miss ...a good hand at chopping wood, and made himself useful to Mrs. Robert Ferguson (Miss Petrie), John Petrie at the old place, and "Tom" out at North Pine. With the...
Miss
81 Brisbane ...I would have been all right," says Father. When the travellers returned to Brisbane the blacks, who were just as fond of getting fun from Banjo as anyone else...
Brisbane
77 153.02809,-27.46794,0 South ...climbing. In this fashion the two at length came to a little dry creek off the South branch of the Maroochy, and here Banjo had nicely covered up with bushes a fine...
South
81 -19.17522938106053,64.14620971568705,0 QUEENSLAND ...the horse a hit on the flank, and when the animal commenced to trot OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 205 he would let go the reins and hold on to the mane like ' grim death,'...
QUEENSLAND
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Bendigo ...goldfields discovered at the time, which caused excitement. On his return from Bendigo, he showed the blacks pieces of quartz stone containing specks of gold, and...
Bendigo
81 144.28024,-36.75818,0 Toowong ...the river, as an outlet for it. There used to be a very dense scrub at Toowong just where the road turns to go up to the cemetery, and also all along the...
Toowong
73 scot ...threatened—" policeman—^hanker." But though he seemed to be in a great " scot " for a few minutes, it was all over immediately, a more harmless creature...
scot
75 Maroochy ...in his own powers. There was a cattle station at Nindery Mountain, on the Maroochy River, and some time after my father gave up going to that district for cedar...
Maroochy
76 Nindery Mountain ...he himself evidently believed in his own powers. There was a cattle station at Nindery Mountain, on the Maroochy River, and some time after my father gave up going to that...
Nindery Mountain
81 Maroochy ...considered the great rain-maker for that part of the country he came from (the Maroochy district). He had but one eye, having lost the other by rolling into the fire...
Maroochy
81 Maroochy ...way ("Puram" and " Karal "), J^^^^^ who belonged to the country up round the Maroochy River, my father knew very well. " Puram " was considered the great rain-maker...
Maroochy
79 Brisbane ...again in quest of cedar timber. Mr. Pettigrew's steamer conveyed the timber to Brisbane. The blacks worked splendidly. They did all the work in making the roadway and...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 QUEENSLAND ...nice, but it is difficult for inexperienced people to make OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 193 it. properly. My father used to bake very good ones for us when we were...
QUEENSLAND
70 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Mooloolah ...the locality to the water without the assistance of a bullock team, as the Mooloolah River is some distance from the mountain, so he decided to leave it till a more...
Mooloolah
77 Mountain ...Arriving there, they camped for the night, and next morning made for Buderim Mountain, and, having climbed it, the blacks informed Father that he was the first white...
Mountain
79 -81.36667,13.36667,0 Bribie Island ...them), to go to * Mooloolah and Maroochy, to look for cedar timber. Calling at Bribie Island on their way, more blacks were picked up, four being murderers of white men...
Bribie Island
81 Mooloolah ...white man and adopted by the blacks. CHAPTER XXII. A Trip in 1862 to Mooloolah and Maroochy—Tom Petrie the First White Man on Buderim Mountain—Also on...
Mooloolah
71 Australian ...for a hut or house on the coast, hence, I am led to beUeve, as humpy is of Australian origin, that it is one of those words coined by the Australian white man and...
Australian
77 Brisbane ...and are as solid as the day they were put in, nearly forty-five years ago. The Brisbane blacks called the bloodwood tree, or Eucalyptus corjmibosa, " buna." And the...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Humpybong ...watched their opportunity, and, subsequently, killed two of the prisoners at Humpybong. Almost forty-five years ago, when my father first settled at North Pine, it...
Humpybong
79 Maryborough ...and they saw plenty of timber. Mr. Pettigrew afterwards started a sawmill at Maryborough. My father says he was never afraid that the blacks would do him harm, but, in...
Maryborough
79 143.73923,-37.04562,0 Brisbane ...to which his wife could come, these boys took turn about in travelling to Brisbane with a pack-horse every week, taking in little fresh things from the country to...
Brisbane
76 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Helena ...they got to the mouth of Brisbane River, a fair wind was blowing towards St. Helena, and the natives suggested that the party should run across to the island and...
Helena
79 -112.03611,46.59271,0 Edinburgh ...or as a private or otherwise, I do not remember. He studied as a doctor in Edinburgh, but was an EngUshman. He was employed by two ladies of the Royal Family of...
Edinburgh
77 -3.19648,55.95206,0 Dunwich ...Bank of New South Wales now stands. Two blacks were fighting there, and as at Dunwich, one of them—" Murrki "—^had a razor in his hand, and the other man—" Kebi...
Dunwich
80 Brisbane ...had the man's wound attended to and sewn up, and then took him in the boat to Brisbane, where in the hospital he very soon recovered. It is wonderful how the blacks'...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbane ...they burnt mangrove trees for ash for soap-making at the mouth of the Brisbane. Mr. Petrie inspected these places with his whale-boat, as he also now and then...
Brisbane
72 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbane ...also the limekiln and the stockade for the prisoners. On the return journey to Brisbane Mr. Petrie called in at all the places where men were at work on the river. Not...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Logan ...and he visited different places, such as Ipswich (Limestone then), Dunwich, Logan River, Amity Point (for the pilot station), etc. He went to Ipswich to see...
Logan
78 -81.99346,37.84871,0 Brisbane ...was one of the largest which has OF EARLY QUEENSLAND 223 been seen in Brisbane for many years past. The greatest respect was shown for the deceased by all...
Brisbane
72 153.02809,-27.46794,0 QUEENSLAND ...took place yesterday afternoon, was one of the largest which has OF EARLY QUEENSLAND 223 been seen in Brisbane for many years past. The greatest respect was shown...
QUEENSLAND
76 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Street ...the loss of his son, Walter, who was drowned in the creek which crosses Queen Street. (Singularly enough, Mr. John Petrie lost a son of the same name, in the same...
Street
80 -2.74,51.12472,0 Sydney ...Colonel Barney, and the latter endeavoured to persuade Mr. Petrie to return to Sydney, as his office was abolished, but that gentleman preferred remaining here, and...
Sydney
81 -60.1831,46.1351,0 Briby 's Island ...of us was ' the sea, the sea, the open sea,' glittering in the sunlight, with Briby's Island, Moreton Island, and Moreton Bay to the South, and a hundred miles of coast...
Briby 's Island
80 Norwegian ...haul himself upwards, and beckoning to us to follow. Not to disgrace my Norwegian training as a cragsman, I did so, and the other Jimmy brought up the rear, and...
Norwegian
74 Beerwah Mountain ...the scrub. On the return from this trip, Mr. Petrie camped at the foot of Beerwah Mountain, for he was anxious to ascend it and take observations from the summit. (He...
Beerwah Mountain
76 Brisbane ...this excursion he was accompanied by his son John (so well known afterwards in Brisbane), two convicts, and two native blacks as guides—" Tunbur " and " Dundawaian."...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Sydney ...to have sprung many of the fine speciniens now to be seen about Brisbane and Sydney." On this excursion he was accompanied by his son John (so well known...
Sydney
79 -60.1831,46.1351,0 Oxley Creek ...aroused, and he again proposed a lengthening of the trip. This time it was to Oxley Creek, where convict sawyers were at work. All went well until, after leaving the...
Oxley Creek
80 Logan ...the planting of prepared rice. This was done in 246 TOM PETRIE'S REMINISCENCES Logan's time by Mr. Peter Spicer, the superintendent of convicts. My father has often...
Logan
81 -81.99346,37.84871,0 Brisbane ...of Andrew Petrie is indissolubly connected, not only with the early history of Brisbane, but of the colony. Although for some years past incapacitated by a painful...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbane ...brought home to him properly. Some time after the Bribie affair he came into Brisbane with a number of others to attend a corrobboree, and camped at Kedron Brook...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Mooloolah ...him had been forgotten. He was the blackfellow who had murdered a botanist at Mooloolah. On this account he had been an outlaw (" tallabilla " the natives called it)...
Mooloolah
80 Brisbane ...though, during one of his visits to the island, while the priest was absent in Brisbane, my father came upon " Prince Willie " with aU the blacks and gins gathered...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Bribie Island ...information about the blacks' ways and language, saying he wished to go to Bribie Island, and see what he could do in the way of teaching reUgion there. So during my...
Bribie Island
77 Brisbane ...good were limited, as he had no fixed salary, and no free passes. Some of the Brisbane tribe would not go to the island, as they could get drink in Brisbane, making...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbane ...to break up the settlement, and so it has to be." Several gentlemen in Brisbane at that time, among them a Church of England Bishop, were very much...
Brisbane
73 153.02809,-27.46794,0 White Patch ...to settle there. Arriving in Bribie Passage, anchor was dropped opposite the White Patch, and the whole party went ashore, including several blackfeUows who had been...
White Patch
79 Gympie ...to Caboolture. And he accompanied his friend, Mr. George PhilUps, C.E., to Gympie, traversing the different trial lines. Also he showed the surveyors the...
Gympie
77 152.66499,-26.18979,0 Cleveland ...Eight Mile Plains, so that they could bring their wool down to the store at Cleveland. Also when a boy he piloted the first picnic party through the bush to where...
Cleveland
78 153.26516,-27.52677,0 Gympie ...tree line to Petrie's Creek, on the Maroochy River. Then when the Kne to Gympie was marked, he went with Cobb and Co. to help them pick out stopping places for...
Gympie
75 152.66499,-26.18979,0 QUEENSLAND ...sometimes pressing the cake in a vice instead of between stones." OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 235 Sometimes the chain gang got hold of a piece of tobacco made like this...
QUEENSLAND
77 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Creek Street ...bag in which he carried this meal. In those days the creek which ran down Creek Street, existed of course, and a bridge spanning it opposite Messrs. Campbell and...
Creek Street
76 Brisbane ...and hill corn. Father has often seen the convicts cultivating the ground about Brisbane, and it was all done by hoe—no plough. ' I have seen," he says, " the poor...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Street Station ...Point, South Brisbane, from Turbot Street along the river towards Roma Street Station, and from the present steam ferry at Creek Street along the river to the...
Street Station
73 -0.520828,51.886356,0 South ...was generally divided up into lots who worked at New Farm, Kangaroo Point, South Brisbane, from Turbot Street along the river towards Roma Street Station, and...
South
77 -19.17522938106053,64.14620971568705,0 QUEENSLAND ...The blacks, they remarked, got the credit of the murder, but they OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 231 themselves Icnew who did it, and it was all right for he deserved his...
QUEENSLAND
77 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Street ...tied to be flogged. Though my father has many a time seen men flogged in Queen Street, he does not remember the scene at this pine tree. But often the little chap...
Street
81 -2.74,51.12472,0 Brisbane ...it. He came to Sydney and then got permission from the Government to come to Brisbane, then a convict colony. Making it a free settlement was talked of...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 German ...homeopathy, or rather that system of curing diseases, under Hahnemann (a German), the originator of that system, and was remarkably successful in effecting...
German
75 23.4110602,42.6097532,0 Creek ...and put him and party on his (" Tom " Petrie's) marked tree line to Petrie's Creek, on the Maroochy River. Then when the Kne to Gympie was marked, he went with...
Creek
79 -94.97743,29.7355,0 South Pine ...crossing the bridge. The road to Narangba was marked by him, also the one from South Pine to Cash's Crossing, and from the lagoons on the old Northern Road to Terror's...
South Pine
81 Brisbane ...there were no roads, of course, but just a timber track from Bald Hills to Brisbane. For his own convenience, he therefore marked a road from the Pine to reach...
Brisbane
77 153.02809,-27.46794,0 New South Wales ...He embarked in business on his own account, and was induced to emigrate to New South Wales in 1831, on the representations of Dr. Lang. Arriving in Sydney in that year...
New South Wales
77 147.01175425586197,-32.16900279777995,0 Edinburgh ...in Scotland, and was bom in June, 1798. In early youth he removed to Edinburgh, where he was connected with an eminent building firm, and served four years in...
Edinburgh
71 -3.19648,55.95206,0 Scotland ...on which he first landed. " Mr. Petrie was a native of Fifeshire, in Scotland, and was bom in June, 1798. In early youth he removed to Edinburgh, where he...
Scotland
71 Brisbane ...or fifteen years, he was sent with a fetter to Wivenhoe Station, on the Brisbane 'River, just after the murder by the blacks of Mr. Uhr there. A blackfellow...
Brisbane
74 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbane ...time there was very little communication between Sydney and Moreton Bay—as Brisbane was then called. Only about once a month or two a vessel would arrive with...
Brisbane
77 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Burnet Lane ...started afresh. He prospered, and made a lot of money, so bought property in Burnet Lane, where he and his wife went to live. After this he built a small brick store...
Burnet Lane
79 Street ...he married, and later bought a piece of grourd on the north side in George Street, next I40 TOM PETRIE'S REMINISCENCES to Gray's boot shop, and there he put up a...
Street
77 -2.74,51.12472,0 George ...some time he married, and later bought a piece of grourd on the north side in George Street, next I40 TOM PETRIE'S REMINISCENCES to Gray's boot shop, and there he...
George
80 22.46173,-33.963,0 Red Bank ...leave the country. " Wandi " was signed over to Dr. Simpson at Goodna (called Red Bank in those days), and he was killed some time afterwards through a Umbof a tree...
Red Bank
80 -81.23843,33.93209,0 Sydney ...to me, and said, " Mr. Davis, allow me to introduce Mr. So-and-so to you, from Sydney ;. he has come all the way to see you, and to get some information about the...
Sydney
81 -60.1831,46.1351,0 Moreton Island ...seeing this, hastily launched one and got into it, and pulled across to Moreton Island. The old woman did likewise, and then on and on again they went, as formerly on...
Moreton Island
74 QUEENSLAND ...tribe themselves kept to Bowen Hills, Spring Hill, New Farm, etc. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 163 When Father went out to the blacks next day to see how the fight was...
QUEENSLAND
77 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Hamilton ...tribes hunted at " Buyuba " (Enoggera Crossing), and others at the Hamilton scrub. The Brisbane tribe themselves kept to Bowen Hills, Spring Hill, New...
Hamilton
69 142.02202,-37.74425,0 Wivenhoe ...hunting all round about. Some, such as the Ipswich, Mount Brisbane, and Wivenhoe tribes, hunted in the scrub which used to stand near where the Toowong Railway...
Wivenhoe
74 0.95796,51.85553,0 Brisbane ...we will leave them to come to where the old warriors were fighting. The Brisbane side chased the others as far as Red Hill, and then, two of the Northern blacks...
Brisbane
74 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Street Station ...women were all dancing and singing on the flat in front of the present Roma Street Station. They were made to walk in pairs, six men, all decorated and painted up for the...
Street Station
78 -0.520828,51.886356,0 QUEENSLAND ...the Logan up to Brisbane had their camp at Green Hills (overlooking OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. i6r Roma Street Station, where the Reception House is now), the Ipswich...
QUEENSLAND
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Logan ...were camped in this wise : The Brisbane, Stradbroke Island, and all from the Logan up to Brisbane had their camp at Green Hills (overlooking OF EARLY QUEENSLAND...
Logan
79 -81.99346,37.84871,0 Nudgee ...with himself, taking his wife with him. He went to the Serpentine Swamp near Nudgee, for in those days there were lots of ducks there, and was dehghted when he saw...
Nudgee
79 QUEENSLAND ...he paddled with one oar as formerly, and, of course, went on drifting OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 151 further and further away. He did not seem to hear, though the boy called...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Albert ...go to where the sawyers were cutting the timber in the scrub up the Logan or Albert River (it is not remembered which), and pick it up on their return. So they...
Albert
79 2.634452,49.988634,0 Kilcoy Station ...told him that a great many blacks and gins and pickaninnies were poisoned at Kilcoy Station —they were there at the time. The white fellows gave them a lot of flour, and...
Kilcoy Station
79 Coochimudlo ...reply, " I don't know yet, we will go further on." So on and on they went from Coochimudlo to Peel Island, and from there to Green Island, then afterwards to St. Helena...
Coochimudlo
81 Russell ...him. They kept along the shore for a long, long way, and at length came to Russell Island, and landing there made a camp. Of course, every one looked forward to...
Russell
77 -82.69766,38.5173,0 Moreton Island ...getting home again. Where they had landed was what is now known as an end of Moreton Island, near South Passage. In those days there was no passage, but one long island...
Moreton Island
79 Moreton Island ...for very life, in the strong deep water. At length the current took them to Moreton Island, where they landed, the snakes first, who left the canoe and went up on to dry...
Moreton Island
78 Moreton ...Pine River. Marvellous as it may seem, their canoe was just a shell of the Moreton Bay chesnut (" mai ") — probably a gigantic one ! The black snake was ill, so...
Moreton
77 -3.11667,53.4,0 QUEENSLAND ...nest with young birds in it, and these latter he proceeded to throw OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 121 down one by one to his sisters, the fall to the ground killing the poor...
QUEENSLAND
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Brisbane ...was divided up into different lots, who belonged some to North Pine, some to Brisbane, and so on. These lots had their own little boundaries. Though the land...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Moggill Creek ...the country as far north as North Pine, south to the Logan, and inland to Moggill Creek. This tribe all spoke the same language, but, of course, was divided up into...
Moggill Creek
76 Logan ...or Brisbane tribe owned the country as far north as North Pine, south to the Logan, and inland to Moggill Creek. This tribe all spoke the same language, but, of...
Logan
79 -81.99346,37.84871,0 Queensland ...police, with whom he remained a long time. He has been all over the North of Queensland in that capacity. This soHtary member of a once numerous tribe is now...
Queensland
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Hills ...to play and fight together. The white boy saw the other—at Barrambin (Bowen Hills)—put through the " Kurbingai " ceremony and so made a " kippa," but he does not...
Hills
78 -118.40036,34.07362,0 Brisbane ...carpet snake. This man is of interest, as being the last of his tribe —the old Brisbane or Turrbal tribe, of which North Pine formed a part. He is of the same age as...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 North Pine ...no one else could fish there without his permission. In this way a part of the North Pine River, near the present railway bridge, was owned by " Dalaipi," ii8 TOM...
North Pine
81 Upper North Pine ...to visitors. Another time the blacks had attacked two shepherds at the Upper North Pine at, Whiteside Station, and killing one, left the other for dead. The latter had...
Upper North Pine
73 Brisbane ...with the blacks, who welcomed them heartily, and sped them on their way to Brisbane, where they arrived safely. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND 1^7 On yet another occasion "...
Brisbane
77 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbane ...there, and the following day the boy was given another letter to take back to Brisbane for Richard Jones, who lived where Sir Samuel Griffith now lives at New Farm...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 QUEENSLAND ...and they more than once suspected the truth—that he had married OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 133 the young girl. So, by-and-bye, they offered to help him build a hut for...
QUEENSLAND
75 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Peel Island ...one tribe to another. A Faithful Bride. Three brothers once lived on Peel Island who all admired and wished. to marry the same young girl—a daughter of a great...
Peel Island
71 Bowen ...murdering one of them. The next day Father went out to the aboriginal camp at Bowen Hills, and took with him the presents he had promised the three natives...
Bowen
80 148.24754,-20.01367,0 Brisbane ...be better to send his brother across to the mainland, and let him walk to Brisbane with Neddy and two or three blacks. They could then also give the information...
Brisbane
76 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Toorbul Point ...it for their canoes. So Father went across with some natives to the mainland (Toorbul Point) to obtain some, leaving his brother and the others on the island with the...
Toorbul Point
80 QUEENSLAND ...her, keeping clear of the surf, and puUing her ashore to get rid OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 173 of the water now and again, as she leaked a lot. And so on till smooth...
QUEENSLAND
76 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 QUEENSLAND ...was left for dead, was one Peter Glyn, an old prisoner. fc*S*3 OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 171 and Father saw this man afterwards when he had come out of hospital, The...
QUEENSLAND
75 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Moreton Island ...and pulling it off, let it fall like a log to the ground. A boat's crew of Moreton Island blacks were waiting at the old ferry to put the body in a boat and bring it...
Moreton Island
77 South ...of Jemmy. They waited till the dray appeared on the bank of the river at South Brisbane, and saw the driver back up as close as possible, then take the body...
South
75 -19.17522938106053,64.14620971568705,0 QUEENSLAND ...my father knew who was not afraid to travel at night, and all OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 169 alone, and would be heard of one day at one place, and then perhaps again...
QUEENSLAND
73 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Toowong Railway ...Creek. Later, sawyers working in the scrub near the present Toowong Railway station—" Baneraba "—spoke of his thieving, and other Government sawyers at...
Toowong Railway
62 QUEENSLAND ...grass Tope, and a bunch of grass surmounted the top, which pointed OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 165 south. The ground was nicely cleared round this stick, and a footmark...
QUEENSLAND
78 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Hills ...strong. When Father heard he had been killed he rode out to the camp at Bowen Hills to see him, but found only a few old gins and men, who said the others had gone...
Hills
80 -118.40036,34.07362,0 Enoggera railway bridge ...died from lockjaw. They carried the remains, and crossed the creek where the Enoggera railway bridge is now, and further on made a fire and skiimed the body and ate it. My father...
Enoggera railway bridge
79 Sideling Creek ...still open to choose from. However, arriving at the North Pine upper crossing (Sideling Creek), they met a bullock dray loaded with cedar, making down the river towards the...
Sideling Creek
81 Brisbane ...old blackfellow was the head man of the North Pine tribe, and often came into Brisbane. He replied that there was plenty good " tar " (ground) at " Mandin " (fishing...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Hotel ...177 run up Creek Street. Pausing on the site of the present Gresham Hotel, they had a look at their victim, and found that his arm had come free of the...
Hotel
70 Island ...on and on they went from Coochimudlo to Peel Island, and from there to Green Island, then afterwards to St. Helena, and at each place they camped, and were...
Island
79 -91.09621,30.21742,0 Brisbane ...rosewood {" bunuro "), and these were sometimes exchanged for others ; the Brisbane tribe valued them greatly. Before a fight, quantities of spears were...
Brisbane
77 153.02809,-27.46794,0 QUEENSLAND ...circle round, and return to the sender's feet when thrown, and this OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. loi was the one which was sent in among birds to frighten them- The fighting...
QUEENSLAND
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Stradbroke Islands ...thus. They were in the habit of signalling from the two points of Moreton and Stradbroke Islands—^in those early times South Passage was very much narrower than it is now...
Stradbroke Islands
80 Brisbane ...was also sought for its roots. It is well known as " cunjevoi," but the Brisbane blacks called it " bundal." This plant is poisonous, but the blacks...
Brisbane
74 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Maroochy ...called " wargun. Swans.—^The Turrbal or Brisbane tribe (not the natives of the Maroochy River) called a black swan " marutchi " (Maroochy). Swans were caught in the...
Maroochy
81 Tenerifie ...happy day has he spent with his dark companions hunting on Bowen Terrace, Tenerifie, Bowen Hills,^-Spring Hill, Red Hill, and all round where the hospital now...
Tenerifie
76 fold ...and then hung roimd the neck, kept in place there by a string put through the fold. Over the rug a dilly was ^ways hung, containing fish, birds, or food of any...
fold
80 Paddymelon ...Skins—The Aboriginal's Wonderful Tracking Powers—Wallaby, Kangaroo Rat, Paddymelon, and Bandicoot—'Possum—'Possum Rugs—Native Bear—Squirrel—Hunting on Bowen...
Paddymelon
74 European ...laughter always, for Banjo was sure to be ready. Another amusement which seems European, yet which was common to the blacks in their primitive state, is that known to...
European
81 QUEENSLAND ...feet high, and when pulled up the bottom end is white, then there is OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 107 a red length, and the top is green. To prepare them for the dillies, the...
QUEENSLAND
80 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Turrbal ...name for the baskets or bags the blacks used. This name belonged to the Turrbal tribe ; others were different, as, for instance, the Stradbroke Island people...
Turrbal
74 QUEENSLAND ..." was not of the same thickness all through, but tapered from threeOF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 103 quarters of an inch at the handle end, before the point, to two and a-half...
QUEENSLAND
78 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 New South Wales ...there. 8 TOM PETRIE'S REMINISCENCES These black police were aborigines from New South Wales' and distant places, and they, with their white leader, came and shot several...
New South Wales
78 147.01175425586197,-32.16900279777995,0 Stradbroke ...any black from Ipswich, as far north as Mount Perry, or from Frazer, Bribie, Stradbroke, and Moreton Islands. Of all the blackfellows who were boys when he was a boy...
Stradbroke
79 Logan ...as Gold Creek or Moggill, as far north as North Pine, and south to the Logan, but my father could also speak to and understand any black from Ipswich, as...
Logan
73 -81.99346,37.84871,0 Southern Queensland ...with the Brisbane tribe (Turrbal), and several other tribes all belonging to Southern Queensland who had different languages, but the same habits, etc. The Turrbal language was...
Southern Queensland
79 Brisbane ...the North differ in their languages, habits, and behefs from the blacks about Brisbane. Father was very famiUar with the Brisbane tribe (Turrbal), and several other...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Queensland ...expense does not call forth resentment; rather would they join in the laugh. Queensland is a large country, and the tribes in the North differ in their languages...
Queensland
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Ufe ...He was found Ijdng dead one day in the mud in the Brisbane river. Later on in Ufe, when my father employed the blacks, they were always kind and considerate...
Ufe
80 Hills ...had looked everjTwhere, they found him at length in the blacks' camp out Bowen Hills way. There was one blackfellow at that time these children used to...
Hills
81 -118.40036,34.07362,0 pole ...shining through the openings of the eyes and mouth. This head he put on a pole, and then wrapping himself in a sheet with the pole, he looked to the...
pole
76 26.2,43.95,0 QUEENSLAND ...one of the workmen (a prisoner) engaged in building the house there OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 3 was speared ; he wasn't much hurt, however, and recovered. While living at...
QUEENSLAND
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Brisbane ...creek which ran up Creek Street. Kangaroo Point, New Farm, South Brisbane, and a lot of North Brisbane were then under cultivation, but the rest was 'all...
Brisbane
67 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbane ...Bight First Steamer in the River—" Tom's " Childhood—" Kabon-Tom "— Brisbane or Turrbal Tribe—North Pine Forty-five years ago—Alone with the Blacks —Their...
Brisbane
70 153.02809,-27.46794,0 ON ...219. ANDREW PETRIE's TREE ON SUMMIT OF MOUNT PETRIE 248 ANDREW PETRIB's HOUSE ON PETRIE's BIGHT 274 BRISBANE IN 1858-9 2S0 "WARRABA," SIR J, P. BELL's BLACKBOY...
ON
80 OR ...(BURPENGARY CREEK) 156 FERRY IN 1850 170- "MURRUMBA" 179. KING SANDY OR " KER-WALU " (TOORBAL POINT OR NINGI NINGI TRIBE) I94 ANDREW PETRIE (SENIOR) „...
OR
71 13.617815,37.403181,0 Breakfast Creek ...high and six feet^de. ;^i Father has seen them made in the Brisbane River, in Breakfast Creek, in the North and South Pine Rivers, Maroochy, and Mooloolah Rivers, and...
Breakfast Creek
80 QUEENSLAND ...blacks would eat oysters raw, but were very fond of them roasted. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 75 too, probably because they opened so easily then. In the old days the...
QUEENSLAND
77 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Turrbal ...by white people, they always put in these twigs. I may mention here that the Turrbal tribe called the mangrove " tintchi" and it is interesting to know that quite...
Turrbal
79 QUEENSLAND ...who said they never failed when called to drive in fish to them." OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 71 Since writing the above I have come across the'jjwritten statements of two...
QUEENSLAND
77 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 QUEENSLAND ...the blubber and flesh taken from the ribs in a large flake. The whole OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 69 carcass would be cut up after that, and divided out, the gins, who were...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Helena ...way of disturbances. The blacks would catch them at Fisherman's Island, at St. Helena, at a place near Dunwich they caUed " Gumpi," at Bribie Passage, and at the...
Helena
81 -112.03611,46.59271,0 St. ...the way of disturbances. The blacks would catch them at Fisherman's Island, at St. Helena, at a place near Dunwich they caUed " Gumpi," at Bribie Passage, and...
St.
81 -8.61242,41.26556,0 Queensland ...to cod-liver oil, and this is how it came to be first used medicinally in Queensland. If all the old aboriginals of Brisbane could come to life again they would not...
Queensland
76 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Brisbane ...All to no purpose though, for nothing happened. It was on the way back to Brisbane from thi- trip next day that the blacks showed Father the " kippa " ring at...
Brisbane
76 153.02809,-27.46794,0 QUEENSLAND ...was only mica. However, they camped for the night there in the scrub. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 63 Samford was all wild bush then. As darkness was descending a bird (a "...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Turon ...it the correct question. On one occasion, when my father returned from the Turon diggings in 185 1, he showed the blacks some gold dust, and they informed him...
Turon
77 Brisbane ...passing that way, came across Brown's body lying there, and they sent word to Brisbane, also christening the creek Brown's Creek, by which name it is known to this...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 North Pine ...followed it towards Brisbane. Coming at length to a creek which runs into the North Pine River, there, at the crossing, were a number of Turrbal blacks, who...
North Pine
80 Brisbane ...tired of living the life of the blacks, left them to make his way to Brisbane. He got on to the old Northern Road going to Durundur, and followed it towards...
Brisbane
71 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Indian ...belonged to the Brisbane or Turrbal tribe. A prisoner, a coloured man (an Indian), Shake Brown by name, stole a boat, and making off down the bay, took with him...
Indian
76 Northern ...so that they might all learn something fresh in that way. For instance, a Northern tribe would show theirs to a Southern one, and so on each night, till at last...
Northern
76 30.493247228150935,-9.683756042147914,0 Queensland ...statement ; it is just hearsay, as there was no "suchtiur^assa&ifice among the Queensland aborigines, neither did they"ever kill any OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 19 one for the...
Queensland
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 turkey ...and yams—^he would get his share of the best—^as much as he could eat. The turkey eggs were about the size of a goose egg, and the fresh ones were taken to...
turkey
77 35.170129200695875,39.061295069801716,0 QUEENSLAND ...from all. Photo by Tosca Ltd.] ABORIGINAL BABY. \To Jacc f. l6. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 17 directions, laden with good things—opossums, carpet snakes, wild turkey...
QUEENSLAND
76 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Uttle ...however ; and the old gins in addition wore feathers coloured red, stuck in Uttle bunches here and there in the hair with bees' wax. (The bees' wax, which was...
Uttle
78 Brisbane ...went from the Samford ring to the site of the Roma Street Railway Station in Brisbane, and the coast tribes went either to Eagle Farm or to what used to be known as...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Roma ..." making. The inland tribes went from the Samford ring to the site of the Roma Street Railway Station in Brisbane, and the coast tribes went either to Eagle...
Roma
76 148.78751,-26.56741,0 Brisbane ...of Ipswich, Cressbrook, Mount Brisbane (inland blacks) would, with the Brisbane tribe, generally use the ring at Samford, while the Logan, Amity Point, North...
Brisbane
73 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbane ...instance, the natives coming from the direction of Ipswich, Cressbrook, Mount Brisbane (inland blacks) would, with the Brisbane tribe, generally use the ring at...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 QUEENSLAND ...a gin behind clutched him by the hair of the head, and lifted him up. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 51 Then, still holding on, the lads would follow the men across the ring, the...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Samford ...North Pine, opposite to where the blacksmith's shop now stands, and another at Samford. As in the lesser ceremony, messengers were sent to a neighbouring tribe, and...
Samford
81 152.86699,-27.3727,0 North Pine ...as we call it, may still be seen near Humpybong. There used to be one at North Pine, opposite to where the blacksmith's shop now stands, and another at Samford. As...
North Pine
75 Bribie Island ...it. First a circle — called " bul " by the Brisbane blacks, and " tur " by the Bribie Island tribe—was formed in the ground, very like a OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 49 tii<oat...
Bribie Island
81 QUEENSLAND ...side to the CATCHrENNV OR "GWA1-a" (BRIBIE TRIBE). [ To /ace f*. 46, OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 47 same number on the other for a single-handed fight, man to man. The...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Logan ...invite the Turrbal people to join them, and the latter would then ask the Logan, or Yaggapal tribe. 12 TOM PETRIE'S REMINISCENCES and other island blacks, and...
Logan
76 -81.99346,37.84871,0 English ...were camped a cask was sunk in the sand for fresh water, and Billy, in broken English, called to one of the men. Bob Hunter by name : " Bob, Bob, come quick, bring...
English
80 -86.46415,38.3345,0 Bon-yi Mountains ...travelling to the Bunya Mountains OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 9 (or, to be correct, Bon-yi Mountains—the natives always pronounced it so). Of the " bon-yi season " I will...
Bon-yi Mountains
79 Brisbane ...snake was called " Kabul," hence the name Caboolture, which meant to the Brisbane tribe " a place of carpet snakes," for they were plentiful there in the old...
Brisbane
75 153.02809,-27.46794,0 QUEENSLAND ...days gone past, and, what is more, declares he liked it. Once, when a OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 77 boy, he was out in the scrub where Toowong is now, with a couple of...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Hamilton ...the Women's Quarters at Eagle Farm—A Picnic Occasion—Cutting in Hamilton Road, made originally by Women Convicts—Dr. Simpson—His After-dinner Smoke —...
Hamilton
66 142.02202,-37.74425,0 Brisbane ...Sketch of His Life taken from the Brisbane Courier—Born in 1798—His Duties in Brisbane—Sir Evan Mackenzie—Mr. David Archer—Colonel Barney—An Early Trip to Limestone...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Whiteside Station ...Pine as a Place to Settle—The Birth of " Murrumba" A Portion of Whiteside Station—Mrs. Griflfen—The First White Man's Humpy at North Pine—Dalaipi's Good...
Whiteside Station
66 Whiteside Station ...Whiteside Station—Alone in the Bush—A Coffin Ready Waiting— The Murder at Whiteside Station—Piloting " Diamonds" Through the Bush—A Reason for the Murder—An Adventure Down...
Whiteside Station
76 Whiteside Station ...Message to Wivenhoe Station after Mr. Uhr's Murder—Another Message to Whiteside Station—Alone in the Bush—A Coffin Ready Waiting— The Murder at Whiteside...
Whiteside Station
72 Island ...with a Watch-^Mr. McKenzie's Murdered Shepherds—Frazer Island—Mr. Russell Sea-sick. 258 CHAPTER VII. The Alteration of Historical...
Island
57 -91.09621,30.21742,0 Bay ...of Coal, etc. 247 CHAPTER VI. Journal of an Expedition to the "Wide Bay River" in 1842—Discovery of the Mary—Extract from Mr. Andrew Petrie's...
Bay
70 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 Bay ...the Early Days- Andrew Petrie's Tree—Early Opinion of the Timbers of Moreton Bay An Excursion to Maroochy—First Specimens of Bunya Pine—First on Beerwah...
Bay
79 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 Logan ...side travelling from Brisbane, just before crossing Indooroopilly Bridge. The Logan, Stradbroke, and some Moreton Island blacks went over to what we call West...
Logan
80 -81.99346,37.84871,0 Brisbane ...name for the bend or pocket of the river on the left hand side travelling from Brisbane, just before crossing Indooroopilly Bridge. The Logan, Stradbroke, and...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Mount ...tribes separated, hunting all round about. Some, such as the Ipswich, Mount Brisbane, and Wivenhoe tribes, hunted in the scrub which used to stand near...
Mount
72 -83.91965,39.02757,0 Brisbane ...or wounded. A halt in the proceedings was always brought about so. The Brisbane tribe then retreated, and were chased back as far cis the road that now leads...
Brisbane
73 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Wivenhoe ...Street Station, where the Reception House is now), the Ipswich, Rosewood, and Wivenhoe tribes were on Petrie Terrace, where the barracks are, and the Northern...
Wivenhoe
80 0.95796,51.85553,0 Street Station ...had their camp at Green Hills (overlooking OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. i6r Roma Street Station, where the Reception House is now), the Ipswich, Rosewood, and Wivenhoe tribes...
Street Station
75 -0.520828,51.886356,0 Roma ...Brisbane had their camp at Green Hills (overlooking OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. i6r Roma Street Station, where the Reception House is now), the Ipswich, Rosewood, and...
Roma
79 148.78751,-26.56741,0 Stradbroke Island ...some seven hundred blacks, and they were camped in this wise : The Brisbane, Stradbroke Island, and all from the Logan up to Brisbane had their camp at Green Hills...
Stradbroke Island
79 Logan ...blacks—^ranging themselves against the Brisbane, Ipswich, Rosewood, Wivenhoe, Logan, and Stradbroke Island tribes. Altogether there were some seven hundred blacks...
Logan
80 -81.99346,37.84871,0 Creek Street ...gate in this wall faced what is now Queen Street. Along the river bank, from Creek Street to past where Messrs. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 159 Thomas Brown and Son's warehouse...
Creek Street
79 Street ...some couple of feet thick. One large gate in this wall faced what is now Queen Street. Along the river bank, from Creek Street to past where Messrs. OF EARLY...
Street
81 -2.74,51.12472,0 Brisbane ...put dirt on his hand and tied it up ; then they started back to the camp at Brisbane, taking with them the broken gun. Next day Dick's wife returned the gun to the...
Brisbane
78 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbane ...they stayed the night, and next day made through the bush in a direct line for Brisbane, where they arrived quite safe and sound, none the worse for their httie...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 QUEENSLAND ...(BURrRNl^ARY CKKF.K. Photo hy T. Maihfivsou.\ {To Jac: /'. 13O. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 157 There were a lot of wild j'oung fellows in the mob, and these set fire to...
QUEENSLAND
76 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Upper ...from the town, leading the pack mule, and the first night got as far as the Upper Caboolture, to the old deserted station where Mr. Gregor and Mrs. Shannon had...
Upper
78 -58.98396224039333,2.8151606894201997,0 Brisbane ...Gardner—" Tom's " Attempt to Shoot Birds—Aboriginal Fights in the Vicinity of Brisbane — The White Boy a Witness—" Kippa "-making at Samford —Women Fighting Over a...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbane ...in the early days, during my father's boyhood, a Mr. Hill, a contractor in Brisbane, asked Mr. Petrie, senior, if he would allow " Tom," his son, to go with him to...
Brisbane
77 153.02809,-27.46794,0 QUEENSLAND ...or three of them were shot, and a white man riding, came unexpectedly OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 149 upon one poor fellow, and caught and tied him to a tree and flogged him...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Brisbane ...might just as well have tried to fly as catch them. Father returned to Brisbane without the " diamonds " for company this time, who, though they stayed a few...
Brisbane
73 153.02809,-27.46794,0 New Farm ...Brisbane for Richard Jones, who lived where Sir Samuel Griffith now lives at New Farm, and who, if my father remembers correctly, was a relative of the murdered Mr...
New Farm
79 -76.99581,39.57538,0 Brisbane ...accompanied him, to show him the road to the station. After leaving Brisbane, the first night was spent at Moggill Creek, and the next day the two, after...
Brisbane
70 153.02809,-27.46794,0 ` ...fifteen years, he was sent with a fetter to Wivenhoe Station, on the Brisbane 'River, just after the murder by the blacks of Mr. Uhr there. A blackfellow...
`
80 QUEENSLAND ...them wounded —one had been shot on the thigh, another on the arm, and OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 145 the third had a flesh wound on his forehead, where a ball had grazed. They...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Hills ...Brydon and William Ballentine—and reaching the camp at Bowen Hills, Father, who was the only one who could speak the native's tongue, told the...
Hills
63 -118.40036,34.07362,0 York ...Father was a boy of about seventeen, a man named Humby was brickmaking in York's Hollow, just about where the show-ring of the Exhibition now is. One night...
York
76 -1.08271,53.95763,0 Bribie Island ...and Brisbane, the Brisbane and the Pine, the Pine and Bribie Island, and the Bribie Island and Maroochy blacks, etc. Often in this way aborigines would stay for some...
Bribie Island
79 Cape Moreton ...went, as formerly on the outside beach, till at last they came to " Gunemba " (Cape Moreton), where a large number of blacks were camped. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 135 In from...
Cape Moreton
81 Swan ...thought and declared it weis true : — A young fellow from " Wiji-wiji-pi " (Swan Bay) was once traveUing along the outside beach of Stradbroke Island when he...
Swan
78 -83.25265,31.71491,0 Sydney ...return from the Dawson, and on the night beforCj a boat was to leave for Sydney, that gentleman, accompanied by a Rev. Mr. Hausmann, turned up at my...
Sydney
75 -60.1831,46.1351,0 Brisbane ...his marks even to the King." In the early days the Rev. W. Ridley came to Brisbane to learn what he could about the Queensland aborigines, and he sought out my...
Brisbane
76 153.02809,-27.46794,0 QUEENSLAND ...? " Because," they answered, " the man who came into the yard was one OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 175 who was in the boat at Caboolture when we killed the men there, and we...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Brisbane ...and they were very merry too. Next day the wind changed, and the return to Brisbane was prepared for. Father asked the three blacks who had helped with the boat to...
Brisbane
77 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Caboolture ...he told ran thus : A party of white men left Brisbane in a boat to go to the Caboolture River to look for cedar timber. At the mouth of the river they picked up three...
Caboolture
79 152.9511,-27.08465,0 Caboolture ...free of flesh, so that a cast could be taken of it. There is a place on the Caboolture River known as the " Dead Man's Pocket." It got its name this way. Three...
Caboolture
78 152.9511,-27.08465,0 Brisbane ...of Jemmy. They waited till the dray appeared on the bank of the river at South Brisbane, and saw the driver back up as close as possible, then take the body by the...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Bowen ...and several other murders. Father often met " Millbong Jemmy " in the bush at Bowen Hills, and had a yam with him, and gave him a piece of tobacco. To the white...
Bowen
80 148.24754,-20.01367,0 Town Hall ...way down the hill. Jemmy was lodged in the cells that used to stand where the Town Hall is now, and next day he was tried and condemned to twenty-five or fifty lashes...
Town Hall
80 QUEENSLAND ...town the missionaries reported they had been robbed by the blacks. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 167 " MillboQg Jemmy " made his way down to Amity Point on Stradbroke Island...
QUEENSLAND
78 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 English ...Jemmy." Now this man's native name was really " Yilbung "—pronounced in English, " Yilbong." He first put in an appearance at the missionary station at Nundah...
English
74 -86.46415,38.3345,0 Bowen ...very strong. When Father heard he had been killed he rode out to the camp at Bowen Hills to see him, but found only a few old gins and men, who said the others...
Bowen
79 148.24754,-20.01367,0 Mooloolah ...rest of the natives occupied the boat with my father ; they thus journeyed to Mooloolah. Arriving there, they camped for the night, and next morning made for Buderim...
Mooloolah
80 Yebri Creek ...of prisoners, and were evidently in search of timber. On the south side of Yebri Creek, near a portion of it my father has since had spanned by a bridge, and in...
Yebri Creek
77 Eraser Island ...one man and his wife were taken. The party went up the Susan River, and to Eraser Island, and Tin Can Bay, and they saw plenty of timber. Mr. Pettigrew afterwards...
Eraser Island
77 English ...was not a man of many words. He would never speak much unless questioned. His English was broken, of course. He and his never became aggressive, nor troublesome in...
English
80 -86.46415,38.3345,0 Nundah ...for them, and so earn a living ? " " Yes, the missionaries were settled at Nundah, and what did we learn from them ? The young blacks got to know too much of the...
Nundah
77 Helena ...forward to a feast of dugong. To this my father agreed. At that time St. Helena was nearly all scrub, and some white men were Uving there who caught dugong and...
Helena
75 -112.03611,46.59271,0 St. ...When they got to the mouth of Brisbane River, a fair wind was blowing towards St. Helena, and the natives suggested that the party should run across to the...
St.
80 -8.61242,41.26556,0 Brisbane ...Father, who had then been living at North Pine for some nine years, went in to Brisbane to see the Duke's arrival, and Mr. Tiffin, the Government Architect, coming to...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Edinburgh ...together and taking part in pa procession, but when the late Duke of Edinburgh (then Prince Alfred) came to visit Brisbane in 1868 such a thing had never been...
Edinburgh
71 -3.19648,55.95206,0 Bribie Island ...Tom Petrie's "Marked Tree Lines"—First Reserve for Aborigines in Queensland (Bribie Island)—The Interest It Caused—Father McNab—Keen Sense of Humour—Abraham's Death at...
Bribie Island
79 Brisbane ...to Maroochy for a change, then come back again, and afterwards, perhaps, go to Brisbane, and so on. It is the black's nature to roam about. In their native state they...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Miss ...a start, so quickly did Banjo jump round and open his mouth, as he had seen Miss Monkey do. The man's surprise changed to mirth then, and—" Well, Miss Petrie,"...
Miss
78 Turrbal ...christen you Governor Banjur, of Nindery." " Banjur " was a class name of the Turrbal tribe. It meant a man above a working man —a great man, in fact, though not so...
Turrbal
80 Nindery ...the back door when he came up with " Karal," and introduced him as coming from Nindery. Grandfather, who was blind at that time, felt the blackfellow all over with...
Nindery
81 Brisbane ...the first to take him into Brisbane. This was on the journey from Bribie to Brisbane after the trip there in search of a lost boat, and after the murder...
Brisbane
78 153.02809,-27.46794,0 QUEENSLAND ...no white man would go near him, being all so afraid of the blacks. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 199 So poor Jimmy was missed when they journeyed back to Maroochy, but his...
QUEENSLAND
78 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Creek ...disliked being disturbed at night, my father tells me that when up on Petrie's Creek, getting cedar timber with his twenty-five natives, one day he told them that...
Creek
81 -94.97743,29.7355,0 Brisbane ...with several murder^. The blacks he took right on, he always allowed to go to Brisbane for a day or two, giving each some few shillings to spend there, and also a...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Bribie Island ...laughing. In travelling to and fro Father always left some of the natives at Bribie Island on the homeward trip, till he returned to pick them up again, for they were...
Bribie Island
79 Wales ...from the ignoble position of a mere outlying penal settlement of New South. Wales to the dignified and important status of an independent province. From 1837 to...
Wales
78 -1.28162,53.34061,0 Brisbane ...died. Sambo did not intend the second death, of course. An inquiry was held in Brisbane on this poisioning affair, and my father interpreted for the blacks...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Humpybong ...217 the skin. They came and said they wanted to go over to the north point of Humpybong, because some Durundur blacks were camped there, and the friends of the dead...
Humpybong
80 Brisbane ...of the Brisbane tribe would not go to the island, as they could get drink in Brisbane, making the excuse that they would not be happy away from their native...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Humpybong ...the different trial lines. Also he showed the surveyors the proposed line to Humpybong. In 1877, during the Douglas Ministry, the first reserve for aborigines was...
Humpybong
79 C.E. ...ways to Caboolture. And he accompanied his friend, Mr. George PhilUps, C.E., to Gympie, traversing the different trial lines. Also he showed the surveyors...
C.E.
73 Gympie ...they always used his marked lines. When the present railway line to Gympie was being surveyed, he went with the surveyors to show them the different ways...
Gympie
70 152.66499,-26.18979,0 Cleveland ...same. When quite a youngster, my father marked a road for the squatters from Cleveland Point to the Eight Mile Plains, so that they could bring their wool down to the...
Cleveland
79 153.26516,-27.52677,0 Humpybong ...his name. His boundary was from Sideling Creek down the coast right round to Humpybong. And now to return to " Dalaipi." When everything had been finally settled, my...
Humpybong
79 Brisbane ...down the river towards the salt water, whence the timber was to be rafted to Brisbane, and who should be riding alongside the team that his man was driving but John...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 North Pine ...that there was plenty good " tar " (ground) at " Mandin " (fishing net) —^the North Pine River railway bridge crossing. MTien Father agreed to go and look at it, "...
North Pine
80 QUEENSLAND ...with this /'':".'. ^y C. Z': /-\'f^uson.] • -MrKKTMBA. ;j> Ml-/. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 179 man's son—a little chap called " Dal-ngang "—and " Dalaipi" himself was...
QUEENSLAND
77 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Brisbane ...with blacks, some coming from Bribie (" Ngunda " tribe), and others of the Brisbane tribe. When " Dundalh " got up on to the gallows he looked all round, and...
Brisbane
77 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brunswick ...present Wickham Street, Valley, between the site of the Byrnes statue and the Brunswick Street corner. The police had hidden near by, and a blackfellow (Wumbungur) of...
Brunswick
80 144.96667,-37.76667,0 Gympie ...since been altered. When Davis (or " Duramboi ") was asked to mark a road to Gympie, he sought my father's assistance for the first part of the way, saying he...
Gympie
79 152.66499,-26.18979,0 Terror 's Creek ...Pine to Cash's Crossing, and from the lagoons on the old Northern Road to Terror's Creek on the Upper Pine. The latter has since been altered. When Davis (or " Duramboi...
Terror 's Creek
76 Brisbane ...For instance, he has opened up lots of roads. The present one from Brisbane to Humpybong was marked by him right from Bald Hills to the sea. When he came...
Brisbane
69 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Stradbroke Island ...belonged to the Turrbal tribe ; others were different, as, for instance, the Stradbroke Island people called a dilly " kulai." One dilh was made from the small rush found in...
Stradbroke Island
79 QUEENSLAND ...with it ; as well as clearing the water they said this prevented it OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 95 spilling. To obtain water the blacks also tapped the tea-tree ; they got a...
QUEENSLAND
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Moreton ...white people came the blacks soaked com in the same way to soften it. The Moreton Bay chesnut (Castanospermum Australe), or " mai," was also poisonous. The nuts...
Moreton
76 -3.11667,53.4,0 Brisbane ...two feet high. A scrub turkey was called " wargun. Swans.—^The Turrbal or Brisbane tribe (not the natives of the Maroochy River) called a black swan "...
Brisbane
76 153.02809,-27.46794,0 fold ...in fact when there was a Httle pickanniny to carry, the string through the fold was done away with, the dilly handle being all that was required. The child was...
fold
77 QUEENSLAND ...the sake of his hide, which was taken off with the help of OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 85 sharp stone knives or shells. When off, the skin was stretched out, and...
QUEENSLAND
70 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Humpybong ...up and divided round. Great quantities of turtle were seen in the old times at Humpybong, and they were also plentiful in Bribie Passage. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 83 There...
Humpybong
81 Valley Union ...one. Once when my father was a boy in Brisbane, while playing near where the Valley Union Hotel now stands with a number of blackboys, throwing small spears, etc., he...
Valley Union
79 Southport ...see what they could do that way. Coming at last, after a weary time, opposite Southport, they swam across to the mainland, so determined were they to get back again to...
Southport
80 153.39796,-27.96724,0 Caloundra ...they travelled on and away along the main beach till they came opposite to Caloundra, where they swam the channel. Here on the mainland they found some fine caves...
Caloundra
77 153.12195,-26.80346,0 QUEENSLAND ...therefore, went back for the yamsticks they had left behind in their OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 123 hurry, while the other stayed to watch, and on the former's return, they...
QUEENSLAND
80 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Bribie Island ...and departed home to their island, laden with the spoil. A Strange Fish. On Bribie Island once two young gins were wandering round, and ended by losing themselves. When...
Bribie Island
78 Australia ...bats might perhaps correspond with the so-called sex-totems in other parts of Australia. Besides this, there were intimate relationships between the family aoid...
Australia
80 134.48623001282735,-25.736503338149504,0 Brisbane ...from one tribe to another. These latter my father has known to walk from Brisbane to Caboolture in a day. Of course, the blacks nowadays lack energy, but in...
Brisbane
75 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbane ...may not be generally known that skipping with a vine was an amusement with the Brisbane blacks before ever they saw the white man's skipping-rope used. But so it...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Cairns ...was cleverest at getting the return. This game is met with at present in the Cairns and CardweU districts (Dr. Roth's Bulletin, No. 4). Yet another toy (which does...
Cairns
79 145.76625,-16.92304,0 Brisbane ...Brisbane on the road to and from camp. As they came along their pathway into Brisbane the natives played this ; then again as they returned in the evening. It was...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Bay ...dillies were made from bark-string, such as that of the " ngoa-nga " (Moreton Bay fig-tree), the " braggain '» (Laportea sp.), the " nannam " vine (Malaisia...
Bay
80 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 St. ...again and again, for the dugong remained in the water. However, at St. Helena, the owner, looking all round him, said, " Well, chaps, Mud Island is...
St.
69 -8.61242,41.26556,0 QUEENSLAND ...called " kutchi," which, however, was the name given to any paint. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 59 When putting on white clay (" banda ") the natives would wet a piece well...
QUEENSLAND
78 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Samford ...for holding the fight after " kippa " making. The inland tribes went from the Samford ring to the site of the Roma Street Railway Station in Brisbane, and the...
Samford
80 152.86699,-27.3727,0 QUEENSLAND ..." by the Bribie Island tribe—was formed in the ground, very like a OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 49 tii<oat eoff^arda, circus ring, the earth being dug from the centre with...
QUEENSLAND
78 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 QUEENSLAND ...also for digging for wild yams—the roots of a vine, something similar OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 45 to sweet potatoes, which the natives were fond of. Sticking these yam...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 QUEENSLAND ...certain places), and when rubbed into the skin this powder produced OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 43 a beautifully glossy colour. On any important occasion, the black men...
QUEENSLAND
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 QUEENSLAND ...their boomerangs, giving thus an invitation to enter. The messenOF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 39 gers would do so, and the song was continued, and sung to a finish by the...
QUEENSLAND
75 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Noosa ...tintchi" and it is interesting to know that quite a different variety grew at Noosa, the blacks there calling it " pirri," the name they gave their fingers. This...
Noosa
80 153.0901,-26.39433,0 Queensland ...to injure one of their porpoises." Mr. Henry Stuart Russell, in " Genesis of Queensland " (page 290), talking of a scene he saw enacted at Amity Point, but no other...
Queensland
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 's Island ...in the way of disturbances. The blacks would catch them at Fisherman's Island, at St. Helena, at a place near Dunwich they caUed " Gumpi," at Bribie Passage...
's Island
70 58.7838272,20.2751568,0 Brisbane ...to be first used medicinally in Queensland. If all the old aboriginals of Brisbane could come to life again they would not recognise their country—the country we...
Brisbane
76 153.02809,-27.46794,0 's Island ...the Brisbane River, and there put into canoes and taken across to Fisherman's Island to where dugong were being caught. There they would live for some time on the...
's Island
77 58.7838272,20.2751568,0 English ...and it has been mispronounced and spelt " Coot-tha." Of course, when the English bees came their honey was taken too, and it was remarkable how, though they...
English
75 -86.46415,38.3345,0 One-tree Hill ...the other. My father gave the latter name to the Government for the hill near One-tree Hill, as in the old days that was a great place for native honey, and it has been...
One-tree Hill
80 138.76667,-34.7,0 Toowong ...it. Once, when a OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 77 boy, he was out in the scrub where Toowong is now, with a couple of natives, and the latter came across some grubs and...
Toowong
78 Big ...on the northern end of Darling Downs was " Combo," who came over from the Big River, in New South Wales, sometime before 1850 with the late Mr. O'Grady Haly...
Big
76 31.93333,-26.81667,0 Moreton ...He was one of the good old sort. I knew him well. When he first came to Moreton Bay he came along to our home on the Bight with the other squatters. Many a...
Moreton
74 -3.11667,53.4,0 Brisbane ...of the death of Sir Arthur Hodgson," Father said, when the news was cabled to Brisbane. " He was one of the good old sort. I knew him well. When he first came to...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 QUEENSLAND ...he had paid for. The '\\ \RKAl;A, SIR I. 1'. BKl 1 s 1:1 Al/k Ili'V. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 283 landlord was profuse in his apologies, but declared he had done no such...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 George ...held in Brisbane the squatters had a cask of ale rolled out on to the side of George Street, opposite Gray's bootshop, and they had the head knocked in and a...
George
80 22.46173,-33.963,0 Brisbane ...not he cannot say : — A man was once driving a bullock-team eithra: to or from Brisbane, laden heavily with wool or provisions. The roads, of course, were rough in...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Bay ...mystery, then on the 20th October, 1848, she was found on the beach at Keppel Bay, water-logged, and with her mast cut out. The cargo was quite undisturbed, and...
Bay
80 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 Miss ...years older, who was in everything), was one of those on board at the time. Miss Petrie stood on the shore with a bottle of champagne in her hand attached to...
Miss
78 Miss ...and amongst those who witnessed it were the mihtary and a party of ladies. To Miss Petrie (Andrew Petrie's only daughter), a tall, dark, handsome girl of...
Miss
80 Petrie 's Bight ...the first vessel built in Moreton Bay w£is launched. She saw the light at Petrie's Bight, where the Howard Smith wharf is now, and was a two-masted vessel, with both...
Petrie 's Bight
76 Bay ...for Sydney again. On the 15th May, 1847, the first vessel built in Moreton Bay w£is launched. She saw the light at Petrie's Bight, where the Howard Smith...
Bay
77 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 scot ...join in the fun. He would know, however, that it was no use getting into a " scot," and he therefore took it all as a joke. It was not often in those days that a...
scot
79 English ...named Greenyead built a house at South Brisbane, at Kurilpa (pronounced in English, Kureelpa)—^what we now call West End. This man obtained a license for a...
English
77 -86.46415,38.3345,0 Petries ...before mentioned " The Old Woman's Factory." This building was empty when the Petries arrived in Brisbane, and there they Uved till their own house on the Bight was...
Petries
80 Indian ...mixed with commeal and made into cakes. Then they used to roast the Indian com in a pan and grind it to make coffee, sweetened with the " coal tar." To...
Indian
70 Bay ...of the Petries, and of the first steamer which ploughed the waters of Moreton Bay." Mr. Andrew Petrie, who before his departure from Sydney was attached to the...
Bay
80 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 Moreton ...of the Petries, and of the first steamer which ploughed the waters of Moreton Bay." Mr. Andrew Petrie, who before his departure from Sydney was attached to...
Moreton
72 -3.11667,53.4,0 QUEENSLAND ...Alongside this bam a short-sentence prisoner lived in a hut ; he was OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 239 a sort of clerk, and kept books which showed the quantity of grain coming...
QUEENSLAND
80 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Logan ...has often heard the prisoners say it was awful the way they were treated in Logan's time, and they thought it a blessing when his end came, for they had then...
Logan
78 -81.99346,37.84871,0 Logan ...the prisoners as they rested and told stories of how they had been treated in Logan's time. They pointed out to the boy the tree where the floggings took place for...
Logan
80 -81.99346,37.84871,0 QUEENSLAND ...gate facing Queen Street. Close to this gate on the outside OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 229 there was a sentry-box, where the soldier who kept the gate could retire...
QUEENSLAND
71 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Street ...surrounding this place was high, with one opening — a gate facing Queen Street. Close to this gate on the outside OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 229 there was a...
Street
74 -2.74,51.12472,0 Brisbane ...remembers him well, also his friend, W. H. Wiseman. A writer in a South Brisbane paper recently speaking of the convict days, says :—'' It is only just to say...
Brisbane
74 153.02809,-27.46794,0 South ...My father remembers him well, also his friend, W. H. Wiseman. A writer in a South Brisbane paper recently speaking of the convict days, says :—'' It is only just...
South
78 -19.17522938106053,64.14620971568705,0 Sydney ...and told him if she could assist him in any way she would do it. He came to Sydney and then got permission from the Government to come to Brisbane, then a...
Sydney
78 -60.1831,46.1351,0 QUEENSLAND ...get his hat, and then, just as his father came up, got away and ran OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 277 off as fast as his legs could carry him all the way home. Going upstairs...
QUEENSLAND
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Brisbane ...Miss Pinnock, niece of a Governor of Jamaica, and sister to Mr. P. Pinnock, of Brisbane, the late Sheriff. Strange that in after years Mr. Andrew Petrie's...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Jamaica ...powerless with laughter. He married a Miss Pinnock, niece of a Governor of Jamaica, and sister to Mr. P. Pinnock, of Brisbane, the late Sheriff. Strange that in...
Jamaica
77 -109.7505397,29.95281677,0 Miss ...of humour, and at times became quite powerless with laughter. He married a Miss Pinnock, niece of a Governor of Jamaica, and sister to Mr. P. Pinnock, of...
Miss
77 Brisbane ...of fun. Mr. John Campbell writing of these early visits of the squatters to Brisbane says, " There was no hotel in Brisbane then, but we, were kindly and eagerly...
Brisbane
78 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbane ...makuran." I have already written of the landing of " Duramboi " and "Wandi" in Brisbane, and mentioned the excitement of the early time squatters over the event. These...
Brisbane
81 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Moreton Island ...instance, with the Turrbal, or Brisbane blacks, it was " mogwi ; " with the Moreton Island tribe, " targan ; " Noosa tribe, " maddar ; " and with the Wide Bay...
Moreton Island
78 Bay ...Played— Destiny of South Brisbane Changed—First Vessel Built in Moreton Bay—The Parson's Attempt to Drive Bullocks—A Billy-goat Ringing a Church Bell —The...
Bay
74 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 Moreton ...the Squatters Played— Destiny of South Brisbane Changed—First Vessel Built in Moreton Bay—The Parson's Attempt to Drive Bullocks—A Billy-goat Ringing a Church Bell...
Moreton
80 -3.11667,53.4,0 South ...—Harkaway—Other Early Racecourses— Pranks the Squatters Played— Destiny of South Brisbane Changed—First Vessel Built in Moreton Bay—The Parson's Attempt...
South
77 -19.17522938106053,64.14620971568705,0 QUEENSLAND ...dense that, except the water immediately about the sides of the boat> OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 273 nothing out of it could be distinguished." Getting free from this at last...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Queensland ...and sound, whatever she looks Uke, the other thing's rotten." (" Genesis of Queensland.") And so this party set out, and, in spite ot many difficulties and hardships...
Queensland
78 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Bay ...Queen's Park escaped being cut up into town lots." But to hail back to Wide Bay and the trip undertaken in what Mr. Russell terms a "nondescript boat." "...
Bay
78 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 Bracefield Cape ...or Graham (" Wandi " the blacks called him) was found, hence the name—Bracefield Cape. He was a convict who had deserted in Logan's time, and he it was who rescued...
Bracefield Cape
72 Boyne ...interior to where the water came from. This last river we thought must be the Boyne. They also informed us that there was a beautiful country about forty miles...
Boyne
80 -85.01394,45.21668,0 Wide ...the land. The blacks informed me there is a river about ten miles beyond the Wide Bay River, and another more to the north-westward, and a third larger than all...
Wide
79 66.947223,39.656498,0 QUEENSLAND ...we continued on till about 9 o'clock, when I ordered about-ship ; OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 267 we were only about eight miles from Cape Brown. It was no use hammering...
QUEENSLAND
77 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Moreton Island ...The formation and productions of the island are much the same as those of Moreton Island ; the timber is a great deal superior, and also the soil ; the cypress pine...
Moreton Island
76 Cape Brown ...the natives for a fishhook, then we left them, and proceeded across the bay to Cape Brown ; landed about 5 o'clock, got into that commodious boat harbour, remained there...
Cape Brown
81 Bracefield ...Island about 5 p.m. Conversed with a native of the island who knew Davis and Bracefield. We showed him how far our guns carried, which appeared to astonish him. There...
Bracefield
79 Wide ...encampment, and when they reached it, seeing our black so plump and fat, the Wide Bay natives asked Bracefield and Davis if the white men would take the part of...
Wide
79 66.947223,39.656498,0 English ...speak his ' mither's ' tongue, as he called it. He could not even pronounce English for some time, and when he did attempt it, all he could say was a few words...
English
78 -86.46415,38.3345,0 Bay ...taking bearings, I descried the river accordingly. It is called the Wide Bay River. While I was on the hill, the rest of the party procured some fresh...
Bay
75 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 Wide ...engaged in taking bearings, I descried the river accordingly. It is called the Wide Bay River. While I was on the hill, the rest of the party procured some fresh...
Wide
81 66.947223,39.656498,0 QUEENSLAND ...a blacks' lire on Frazer's Island, I proposed making for tiiat OF EARLY QUEENSLAND 261 point, intending to take bearings from the high land, from which I also...
QUEENSLAND
74 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Bracefield Cape ...river, but could not affect a landing, on account of the surf. Set sail for Bracefield Cape, and arrived shortly after sunset in the bay or bight. There was a very heavy...
Bracefield Cape
78 Swan River ...till daybreak. " 5th : Made sail for the River Marootchy Doro, or the Black Swan River ; arrived there at two o'clock, but was afraid to enter, it being low water at...
Swan River
78 -101.26759,52.1058,0 Bay ...to the full." CHAPTER VI. Journal of an Expedition to the "Wide Bay River" in 1842—Discovery of the Mary—Extract from Mr. Andrew Petrie's...
Bay
66 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 Tivoli ...of the district, not the least important being the discovery of coal at Tivoli while on a visit to Redbank station. So impressed was he with the importance of...
Tivoli
74 12.8016,41.95952,0 Covent Garden ...by the less title to fame. I can recollect cones of the Bunnia being sold at Covent Garden, London, for ten guineas each." Yet another extract from Mr. Archer's book...
Covent Garden
79 Brisbane ...who held the post of Foreman of Works, January, 1836, under the Government, Brisbane, was the first white intelligent discoverer of this tree, sometimes, I think...
Brisbane
78 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbane ...put on the pack-bullock next morning, and OF EARLY QUEENSLAND, 255 eventually Brisbane was safely reached. Mr. Petrie had the block of timber cut up, and some of it...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Caboolture ...and roadway can be seen. When Mr. Petrie and his companions had reached the Caboolture River they had to go up it a little way in order to be able to cross with the...
Caboolture
78 152.9511,-27.08465,0 Glass House Mountains ...peaked hills, scattered irregularly between it and the sea, called the Glass House Mountains. Our guide, ' Jimmy Beerwah,' had probably that name bestowed on him by Mr...
Glass House Mountains
73 Russia ...was an EngUshman. He was employed by two ladies of the Royal Family of Russia to travel with them from St. Petersburg through Europe to Rome, etc., and back...
Russia
73 96.72826321601113,61.982679896951,0 Road ...the Women's Quarters at Eagle Farm—A Picnic Occasion—Cutting in Hamilton Road, made originally by Women Convicts—Dr. Simpson—His After-dinner Smoke — His...
Road
75 0.133128,52.228967,0 Hamilton ...the Women's Quarters at Eagle Farm—A Picnic Occasion—Cutting in Hamilton Road, made originally by Women Convicts—Dr. Simpson—His After-dinner Smoke —...
Hamilton
66 142.02202,-37.74425,0 Bay ...was loaded on the vessels for Sydney. At other times he took a survey of the Bay and the soundings of the different parts of the water theire. On the return...
Bay
79 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 Logan Rivers ...men were at work on the river. Not only on the Brisbane, but on the Albert and Logan Rivers, the Government prisoners worked sawing cedar. Then they burnt mangrove trees...
Logan Rivers
81 Brisbane ...in at all the places where men were at work on the river. Not only on the Brisbane, but on the Albert and Logan Rivers, the Government prisoners worked sawing...
Brisbane
76 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Glasshouse Mountains ...ascended to the summit of the almost inaccessible Beerwah, the highest of the Glasshouse Mountains, from whence he took bearings for the assistance of the surveyors who were then...
Glasshouse Mountains
80 QUEENSLAND ...wiU form one one of the principal branches of commerce. I also send OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 251 you a small sample of the native gums. Gums could be procured in this...
QUEENSLAND
79 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Moreton ...Andrew Petrie, the able and intelligent superintendent of Government works at Moreton Bay, while that part of the territory was a penal settlement." Dr. Lang speaks...
Moreton
80 -3.11667,53.4,0 Bay ...I shall enumerate a few of the more important species of the timber of Moreton Bay, with notanda, illustrative of the qualities, localities, and uses, for which I...
Bay
81 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 Moreton ..." : — " I shall enumerate a few of the more important species of the timber of Moreton Bay, with notanda, illustrative of the qualities, localities, and uses, for...
Moreton
81 -3.11667,53.4,0 Mount Petrie ...which was unanimously agreed to." A trigonometrical station was built on Mount Petrie, and Mr. Andrew Petrie's tree was cut down to make room for the beacon. In...
Mount Petrie
75 Logan ...caused over this event, for it was thought that the travellers had met with Logan's fate, guns being fired, and black trackers employed, for so long, all...
Logan
78 -81.99346,37.84871,0 Lytton ...managed after that to find their way to the river, coming out near the present Lytton. Here my grandfather (he could not 248 TOM PETRIE'S REMINISCENCES swim)...
Lytton
81 Redbank ...suggested to the Commandant that they should journey through the bush to Redbank to see the sheep station formed there. This was done, and on the way some new...
Redbank
75 152.86667,-27.6,0 Moreton ...sea,' glittering in the sunlight, with Briby's Island, Moreton Island, and Moreton Bay to the South, and a hundred miles of coast, stretching away to the north...
Moreton
77 -3.11667,53.4,0 Moreton ...scramble, we reached the top. OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 253 Nearly the whole of the Moreton Bay district lay spread out beneath us, and about a dozen miles to the eastward...
Moreton
81 -3.11667,53.4,0 English ...a native of the country named ' Jimmy Beerwah,' who could speak a little ' dog English,' or black, fellow slang, having been occasionally at the German Mission, near...
English
81 -86.46415,38.3345,0 Burnett ...who climbed Beerwah was Mr. Burnett, the Government Surveyor (after whom the Burnett River was named), and he also put his name in the bottle. Several others have...
Burnett
79 -2.482721,51.378914,0 Brisbane ...enjoyed a piece of fun and mischief. Their bullock drays used to come down to Brisbane with wool, and these would be left on the south side, because, of course, there...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 QUEENSLAND ...why did he not make use of his information and bring punishment OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 7 to the offender ? Well, because in those days a blackfellow's evidence...
QUEENSLAND
75 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 North Pine ...introduced by the white man. On first coming, nearly forty-five years ago, to North Pine, which is sixteen miles by road from Brisbane, the country round about was all...
North Pine
80 Perry ...also speak to and understand any black from Ipswich, as far north as Mount Perry, or from Frazer, Bribie, Stradbroke, and Moreton Islands. Of all the...
Perry
77 -92.48741,44.73219,0 Mount ...could also speak to and understand any black from Ipswich, as far north as Mount Perry, or from Frazer, Bribie, Stradbroke, and Moreton Islands. Of all the...
Mount
77 -83.91965,39.02757,0 QUEENSLAND ...but the same habits, etc. The Turrbal language was spoken as far OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 5 inland as Gold Creek or Moggill, as far north as North Pine, and south to...
QUEENSLAND
76 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 South Pine ...was the head of a small fishing tribe who generally camped at the mouth of the South Pine river, and was a great warrior. One day the children found him outside their...
South Pine
81 Creek Street ...now stands, being bounded at the far end by the salt-water creek which ran up Creek Street. Kangaroo Point, New Farm, South Brisbane, and a lot of North Brisbane were...
Creek Street
80 Brisbane ...first in New South Wales, but in 1837 (about twelve years after foundation of Brisbane) came on to Queensland in the James Watt, " the first steamer which ever...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Edinburgh ...being but three months old when leaving his native land. He was born at Edinburgh, and came out here with his parents in the Stirling Castle in 1831. He is now...
Edinburgh
74 -3.19648,55.95206,0 Helena ...in Flour — Black Police — Shooting the Blacks— Inhuman Cruelty — St. Helena Murder—Bribie Island Murder. =ERHAPS no one now living knows more from personal...
Helena
71 -112.03611,46.59271,0 OR ...OR " GWAI-A" (BRIBIE TRIBE) 4^ POINCIANA TREE AT " MURRUMBA" 72 KITTY OR " BOURNBOBIAN " IIJ SAM OR " PUTINGGA." ONLY LIVING MEMBER OF BRISBANE TRIBE...
OR
72 13.617815,37.403181,0 Present Creek Street ...Wonderful Power of Feeling—Walter Petrie's Early Death—Drowned in the Present Creek Street—Only Twenty-two Years —Insight into the Unseen—"You Will Find My Poor Boy Down...
Present Creek Street
72 Bay ...Played —Destiny of South Brisbane Changed—First Vessel Built in Moreton Bay—The Parson's Attempt to Drive Bullocks—A Billy-goat Ringing a Church Bell —The...
Bay
74 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 South ...—Harkaway—Other Early Racecourses— Pranks the Squatters Played —Destiny of South Brisbane Changed—First Vessel Built in Moreton Bay—The Parson's Attempt...
South
77 -19.17522938106053,64.14620971568705,0 QUEENSLAND ...yamsticks, while the young gins cut their thighs with sharp pieces of OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 31 flint stone till their legs were covered with blood. In the meantime a...
QUEENSLAND
81 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Manila ...was possible for a corrobboree to travel to the other end of the continent. A Manila man (who afterwards died at Miora, Dunwich, and whose daughter lives there now)...
Manila
80 120.9736589,14.59141108,0 Brisbane ...of Shake Brown (or " Marri-dai-o " the blacks called him), on his way to Brisbane. Then she told her news, and Father heard afterwards again from her own lips of...
Brisbane
75 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Brisbane ...He got on to the old Northern Road going to Durundur, and followed it towards Brisbane. Coming at length to a creek which runs into the North Pine River, there, at...
Brisbane
80 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Glass House Mountains ...feasts the blacks in those days would often catch emus in the vicinity of the Glass House Mountains, and also get their eggs. This my father knew from what was told him, though...
Glass House Mountains
80 Uttle ...(" kulgaripin ") at any time ; these being made from reeds cut into Uttle pieces and strung together on a string of fibre. But in addition to his...
Uttle
70 turkey ...food, of which there was plenty, such as opossums, snakes, and other animals, turkey eggs, wild yams, native figs, and a large white grub, which was found in dead...
turkey
80 35.170129200695875,39.061295069801716,0 Gympie ...the country, some hailing from the Burnett, Wide Bay, Bundaberg, Moimt Perry, Gympie, Bribie, and Frazer Islands, Gayndah, Kilcoy, Mount Brisbane, and Brisbane...
Gympie
80 152.66499,-26.18979,0 Bay ...assembling from every part of the country, some hailing from the Burnett, Wide Bay, Bundaberg, Moimt Perry, Gympie, Bribie, and Frazer Islands, Gayndah...
Bay
81 43.566442093774924,2.6530139407761877,0 QUEENSLAND ...tall, well-made and graceful, with wonderful powers of enjoyment ; OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 15 now they are often miserable, diseased, degraded creatures. The whites have...
QUEENSLAND
78 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Bon-ja Mountains ...have their morning meal, and then, as in the case of this journey to the Bon-ja Mountains, when my father accompanied them, they made ready to move forward on their way...
Bon-ja Mountains
75 Austrahan ...the night ! It comes with the dawn and the first call of the birds ; as the Austrahan bush awakens and stirs, so do Austraha's dark children—or, rather they used to...
Austrahan
78 Bon-yi Mountains ...had lived with. In those early days the Blackall Range was spoken of as the Bon-yi Mountains, and it was there that Duramboi and Bracefield joined in the feasts, and there...
Bon-yi Mountains
78 English ...bunya. To the blacks it was bon-yi, the " i " being sounded as an " e " in English, "bon-ye." Grandfather (Andrew Petrie) discovered this tree, but he gave some...
English
77 -86.46415,38.3345,0 Bribie ...dugong, acting as though they had not the slightest intention of going near Bribie. They also took possession of the young gins, paying no heed to Billy, who...
Bribie
78 153.15942,-27.08367,0 Island ...then brutally flogged till he died. Three men were once murdered at St. Helena Island by aboriginals, and this is the side of the question given by " Billy Dingy "...
Island
81 -91.09621,30.21742,0 St. ...post, and then brutally flogged till he died. Three men were once murdered at St. Helena Island by aboriginals, and this is the side of the question given by "...
St.
80 -8.61242,41.26556,0 Creek Street ...Flogged Himself His Revenge—" Bribie," the Basket-maker—Catching Fish in Creek Street—Old Barn the Prisoners Worked In—" Hand carts." 233 xiv CONTENTS. CHAPTER...
Creek Street
75 York ...Ridley—A Trip to Enoggera for Information—Explorer Leichhardt—An Incident at York's Hollow—An Inquiry Held. 137 xii CONTENTS. CHAPTER XVIII. I'AGE A Message to...
York
79 -1.08271,53.95763,0 Turrubul ...I may mention that the Brisbane or Turrbal tribe is identical with the Turrubul tribe of Rev. W. Ridley. It was my father who gave this gentleman the original...
Turrubul
73 Turrbal ...continental countries. In this connection I may mention that the Brisbane or Turrbal tribe is identical with the Turrubul tribe of Rev. W. Ridley. It was my...
Turrbal
79 Queensland ...early convict days is included in its pages. My father's association with the Queensland aborigines from early boyhood, was so intimate, and extended over so many...
Queensland
80 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Brisbane ...history and development of man. Articles such as these, referring to the old Brisbane blacks, of whom I believe but one old warrior still remains, are well worth...
Brisbane
79 153.02809,-27.46794,0 Gammon Island ...Boat "—Mr. Russell's Details of the Trip—A Novel Cure for Sunstroke—Gammon Island—JoUiffe's Beard. 268 CHAPTER VIII. The Early-time Squatters—Saved by the...
Gammon Island
70 QUEENSLAND ...he may have crossed safely a hundred other times), and falling OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 301 head foremost on to the slabs (it was low tide), he was stunned and lay...
QUEENSLAND
74 144.55053884309493,-22.570868347329696,0 Kangaroo Point ...occasion the latter was loaded and ready to start, but lay at anchor opposite Kangaroo Point, OF EARLY QUEENSLAND. 299 waiting for the tide, which would not suit till eight...
Kangaroo Point
80 Kangciroo Point ...employed in carrying stone (used for buildings) from the hard stone quarry at Kangciroo Point, also sand and shells from the bay for lime-making ; the other journeyed to...
Kangciroo Point
80 Creek Street ...eyesight (1848) his son Walter was drowned in the one-time creek from which Creek Street now takes its name. In those 6arly days Mr. Petrie ran a couple of punts, one...
Creek Street
78 Sydney ...time after, when the pain had gone from his eyes, my grandfather was taken to Sydney to see if the doctors there could do any good ; they told him that one eye...
Sydney
80 -60.1831,46.1351,0 Sydney ...recognising that gentleman's ability, endeavoured to persuade him to return to Sydney, and continue under the Government there. However, taking an interest in...
Sydney
81 -60.1831,46.1351,0 Present Creek Street ...Wonderful Power of Feeling—Walter Petrie's Early Death—Drowned in the Present Creek Street—Only Twenty-two Years —Insight into the Unseen—" You Will Find My Poor Boy Down...
Present Creek Street
72 scot ...Cocky " however, was too smart. He seemed to know well when anyone was in a " scot," and would fly away home after his jeer and laugh. He had a marvellous power...
scot
80 Sydney ...only excelled by the seventy-year old ' sulphur crest ' who domiciled with the Sydney Wentworths, patriarchs there like the Petries were 286 TOM PETRIE'S...
Sydney
81 -60.1831,46.1351,0 Logan ...of Taabinga, on the Burnett. The party travelled up from New South Wales, via Logan and Nanango. " Combo," soon afterwards, went to work on Jimbour, and remained...
Logan
80 -81.99346,37.84871,0 Taabinga ...New South Wales, sometime before 1850 with the late Mr. O'Grady Haly, of Taabinga, on the Burnett. The party travelled up from New South Wales, via Logan and...
Taabinga
75 Sydney ...was declared to be insane, and there being no asylum in Queenland, was sent to Sydney. The kitchen utensils' hiding place was discovered in this wise : The ferryman...
Sydney
81 -60.1831,46.1351,0 Garden Point ...on. The course taken was from the Colonial Stores (Queen's Wharf), down to the Garden Point, where a buoy was anchored, then round the buoy and back to the point on South...
Garden Point
81 Kangaroo Point ...in those days. Old Bob, a sawyer (one-time convict or " old hand "), Uved at Kangaroo Point with his wife—they had no children. The wife used to " go on the spree " now...
Kangaroo Point
79 Moreton Island ...pure " devilment " would egg them on to one another. Once Mickey was sent to Moreton Island to work at a building there. It was thought that being away from stores, he...
Moreton Island
79