Author: Buckley, William
Title: Reminiscenses of James Buckley who lived for thirty years among the Wallawarro or Watourong tribes at Geelong Port Phillip, communicated by him to George Langhorne, manuscript
Date: [1837]
Accession Number: MS13483
Transcript Number: pp0019-006-0
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with them whatever I took fishing or in the chase
they gave me a black woman for a wife but observing
that this occasioned jealousy among others of them
I relinquished her to the native - and contented myself
with being single - this seemed to please the men
much - and I was no longer apprehensive of danger
from them - I had lived about six months with them
when I fell in with one of my companions whom I found
living with some blacks on the sea coast - He then came
and lived with me - but from his faithless [and]
conduct to the Blacks - and dissolute behavior towards
their women - I was so apprehensive of danger to us
both that I resolved to part from him - and I therefore
told him that it was necessary for our mutual [the] safety [of both]
that one must leave the Tribe - he left and I never
heard of him more except by a vague report that
he had been killed by the Blacks - this fate
I felt assured from his imprudent conduct awaited
him - my other companion I never heard of
after parting from him at the Yarra it is probable he
met the same fate as the former and perhaps on
the same account - I now made up my mind
to continue with the Tribe (Watourongs) and principally
lived about the River Barwin, my favourite
place of abode being the part now called Buckley
falls - I soon lost all reckoning of time - I think
after I had been about 2 Years in the country -
I soon after was enabled to express myself in the
Blacks language pretty well - so as readily
to make known my wants and after a few years
residence among the natives I could speak the
language quite well - when I had attained this
knowledge of their Tongue I found I was fast losing
my own - my situation however was now less irksome