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In Tasmania

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by Nicholas Shakespeare


  Part II: Black Lines

  Based on conversations with Ruth Amos, Patsy Cameron, Peter Chapman, John Clark, Clem, Bernice Condie, John Cusick, Tom and Cynthia Dunbabin, Ilewka, Greg Lehman, James and Lyndsay Luddington, Mary Mactier, Furley Mansell, George Masterman, David Montgomery, Margaret-Ann Oldmeadow, Henry Reynolds, Frances Rhodes, Anne Rood, Andrew Sant, Toly Sawenko, Julie Spotswood, Edith Stanfield, Emily Stoddart, Daniel Thomas, Liz Turner, Edna Webb, Dusty Willcox.

  Unpublished source material: Swansea History Room.

  Books and articles: ‘Some recollections of the Tasman Memorial Controversy, 1922-24’, by John Reynolds, T.H.R.A., vol. 13, 1966; ‘Tasman and a Dutch Discovery’, by Peter Chapman, Australian Natural History, vol. 20, 2; The Voyages of Abel Janszoon Tasman, by Andrew Sharp, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1968; ‘Imagining Australia: a case of fact being as strange as fiction’, by Murray Bail, T.L.S, 1978; Some account of the wars, extirpation, habits & c., of the native tribes of Tasmania, by James Erskine Calder, Henn & Co, 1875; Tasmanian Aborigines and their descendants, Bill Mollison and Coral Everitt, Mollison, 1978; Pride against prejudice, by Ida West, Canberra, 1984; Friendly Mission: The Tasmanian Journals and Papers of George Augustus Robinson 1829-1834, ed. N.J.B. Plomley, T.H.R.A., 1966; Weep in silence: a history of the Flinders Island Aboriginal settlement; with the Flinders Island journal of George Augustus Robinson, 1835-1839, ed. N.J.B. Plomley, Blubber Head, 1987; The Last of the Tasmanians; or the Black War of Van Diemen’s Land, by James Bonwick, London, 1870; The Aborigines of Tasmania, by H. Ling Roth, Halifax, 1899; After the Dreaming, by W.E.H. Stanner, 1968 Boyer Lectures, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney, 1969; Community of Thieves, by Cassandra Pybus, Minerva, Melbourne, 1992; Black Robinson: Protector of Aborigines, by Vivian Rae-Ellis, Melbourne, 1988; Trucanini: Queen or Traitor, by Vivian Rae-Ellis, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 1981; The Aboriginal Tasmanians, by Lyndall Ryan, Queensland, 1996; Fate of a Free People, by Henry Reynolds, Penguin, 1995; The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume I, Van Diemen’s Land 1803-1847, by Keith Windschuttle, Macleay, 2003; Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle’s Fabrication of Aboriginal History, ed. Robert Manne, Black Inc., 2003; ‘Better to be Mistaken than to Deceive’: the Fabrication of Aboriginal History and the Van Diemonian Record, by James Boyce in Island 96; The Freycinet Line, 1831: Tasmanian History and the Freycinet Peninsula, by Emily Stoddart, Freycinet Experience Pty Ltd, 2003; The Aboriginal people of Tasmania, by Julia Clark, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 1983; The East Coasters: the early pioneering history of the east coast of Tasmania, by Lois Nyman, Regal Publications, 1990; Pioneers of the East Coast from 1642, by Karl von Steiglitz, Launceston, 1955; The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery, Collins, 1958; H.H. Montgomery – the Mutton Bird Bishop, by Geoffrey Stephens, Hobart, 1985; Living to Tell the Tale, Gabriel García Márquez, Cape, 2003.

  Part III: Elysium

  Based on conversations with Madge Brett, Jill Cainey, Paul Edwards, Bernard Eisele, Mick Evans, Greg Lehman, Wendy Newton, Vivien Van Dam, Laurie Porter, Bob and Molly Shepheard, Petre Tamlyn, Imogen Vignoles, Randall Wheaton. Some of the names have been changed.

  Unpublished source material: Imogen Vignoles, Ivy.

  Newspapers and journals: The Advocate, Launceston Advertiser, The Northern Standard, North-West Post, Tasmanian Tramp.

  Books and articles: Round the World Cruise Holiday, by S.P.B. Mais and Gillian Mais, Alvin Redman, 1965; We Wander in the West, by S.P.B. Mais, Ward Lock, 1950; Lorna’s Author: Letters by R.D. Blackmore to his sister, by David Blackmore, Blackmore Books, 2003; R.D. Blackmore, author of Lorna Doone, by Waldo Hilary Dunn, Robert Hale, 1956; Bushlife in Tasmania, by James Fenton, Regal, Launceston, 1970; My Home in Tasmania, by Louisa Meredith, Sullivan’s Cove, 1979; Louisa Anne Meredith: a tigress in exile, by Vivian Rae-Ellis, Blubber Head, 1979; Ulverstone, An Outline of its history, by Bruce Ellis, Latrobe, 1988; Pioneers of Tasmania’s West Coast, by C.J. Binks, Blubber Head, 1988; King of the Wilderness: the life of Deny King, by Christobel Mattingley, Text, 2001; Trampled Wilderness: the history of southwest Tasmania, by Ralph Gowlland, C.L. Richmond, 1977; ‘The Castra Scheme’ by Geoffrey Stilwell, in Tasmanian Insights, essays in honour of Geoffrey Thomas Stilwell, State Library of Tasmania, 1992; Letter to the Officers of H.M. Indian Services, Civil and Military, by Lt Col. Andrew Crawford, Hobart, 1865; Under the Southern Cross, by H. Cornish, London, 1880; ‘A Home in the Colonies’, by S. Bennett, T.H.R.A. vol. 27, no. 4, 1980; ‘From Raj to Rustic’, by P. Mercer, T.H.R.A. vol. 25, no. 3, 1978; The Unexpected, by Frank Penn-Smith, Cape, 1933; A Divided Society: Tasmania during World War I, by Marilyn Lake, Melbourne, 1975; Chrissie Venn: ‘Suffer Little Children’, by L. & N. Smith, Ulverstone Press, 1999; On the Black Hill, by Bruce Chatwin, Cape, 1981.

  Part IV: Oyster Bay

  Daughter of Tasmania

  Based on conversations with Gloria Andrews, Ian Jack, Lynn Johnson, Doone Kennedy, Edyth Langham, Peter Lawrence, Bill Penfold, Cassandra Pybus, John Ward, Bev Warren.

  Unpublished source material: St Helen’s History Room.

  Newspaper: Launceston Weekly Courier.

  Books and articles: Princess Merle: The Romantic Life of Merle Oberon, by Charles Higham and Roy Mosely, Putnam, 1983; Queenie, by Michael Korda, Warner, 1986; Till Apples Grow on an Orange Tree, by Cassandra Pybus, Queensland, 1998; ‘Errol Flynn’, by Bob Casey in 40 degrees south, 27; Errol Flynn, The Tasmanian Story, by Don Norman, Hobart, 1981.

  TV: ‘The Trouble with Merle’, ABC documentary, August 27, 2002, written and directed by Maree Delofski, producer David Noakes.

  Tigers and Devils

  Based on conversations with Bill Bleathman, Buck and Joan Emberg, Geoff King, Marlene Levings, Menna Jones, Nick Mooney, David Owen, Laurelle Shakespeare.

  Books and articles: Touch the morning: Tasmanian Native legends, by Jackson Cotton, Hobart, OBM Pty Ltd, 1979; Tasmanian Tiger: A lesson to be learned, by Eric Guiler and Philippe Godard, Abrolhos Publishing, Perth, 1998; Thylacine: the tragic tale of the Tasmanian tiger, by David Owen, Allen & Unwin, 2003; ‘Tasmanian Tiger Sighting’, by Nick Mooney, Australian Natural History, 1984; ‘Dining with the Devil’, by M.E. Jones, Australian Natural History, 1994; Valley of the Giants, a guide to Tasmania’s Styx River Forests, by Bob Brown, Brown, 2001; Groundswell: the Rise of the Greens, by Amanda Lohrey, Quarterly Essay, issue 8, 2002.

  Oyster Bay

  Based on conversations with Helen and Malcolm Boyd, Bill Matthewson, Michael Stutchbury, Bruce Sullivan, Rueben Wells.

  Unpublished source material: Balliol College; Swansea History Room.

  Books and articles: A General Collection of the best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in all parts of the world 1808-1814, by John Pinkerton, London, 1817; Letters from the Southern Hemisphere, by F.J. Cockburn, London, 1856; My memoirs laced with East Coast tales of Van Diemen’s Land, by Edward C. Shaw, Shaw, 2000; Journal of Charles O’Hara Booth, ed. Dora Heard, T.H.R.A., 1981; the story of the Japanese submarine is printed in Battle Surface: Japan’s Submarine War Against Australia, 1942-44, by David Jenkins, Random House, 1992.

  Doubles

  Based on conversations with Max Chatwin, Michael Mackenzie, Nevin Shakespeare.

  Books: Chatwin: 6 generations in Tasmania, researched and compiled by Daisy Chatwin, Barbara Pendrey and Vince Scarcella, privately printed 2001; Memories, by Julian Huxley, George Allen & Unwin, 1970; We Europeans, by Julian Huxley, Cape, 1935; Tasmania, by Peter Collenette, D. & L. Book distributors, 1990.

  List of Illustrations

  Map of Tasmania (Professor Pat Quilty, University of Tasmania)

  Anthony Fenn Kemp on enamel (Courtesy of Professor Murray Kemp)

  Alexander Pearce: Sketch by Thomas Bock (State Library New South Wales)

  Ross Bridge (Courtesy of Matthew Kneale)

  Tom Arnold: Daguerreotype made shortly before his departure to New Zealand in 1847 (Dove Cottage, The Wordsworth Trust)

  Julia Sorell: A watercolou
r by Thomas Wainewright, c.1847 (Collection: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery)

  Mount Vernon (Courtesy of Barrie Paterson)

  Necklace (author’s photograph of Gillian’s necklace)

  Tongerlongetter, chief of the Oyster Bay Tribe in 1831: Reproduction of pencil on paper sketch by Thomas Bock c.1832 (Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery. Launceston)

  Mr Robinson on his conciliation mission (Etching from Mr Duterreau’s great picture)

  The Jetty at Wybalenna (Courtesy of Matthew Kneale)

  Colonel Andrew Crawford taken by J.W. Beattie (Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts)

  Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station (Davis Whillas, CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Cape Grim)

  Merle Oberon on her visit to Tasmania in 1978 (Newspix. Tony Palmer historical)

  Tasmanian tiger: Thylacine. A juvenile male at Hobart Zoo, taken by Ben Sheppard in 1928. The animal died the day after it was photographed (Collection: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery)

  Alfred Chatwin and Elizabeth Chatwin (Daisy Chatwin’s Collection, Sprent, Tasmania)

  Index

  3rd Bombay European Regiment

  3rd Infantry

  9th Australia Division

  21st Dragoons

  21st Regiment

  46th Regiment

  99th Regiment

  102nd Regiment of Foot (later New South Wales Corps)

  Abergavenny

  Aboriginal Committee

  Aboriginal Land Council

  Aboriginal place names

  Aborigines

  Black Line

  Black War

  extinction

  genocide

  grants

  handclasp of

  Kemp and

  land and

  Maria Island, on

  population

  revisionist version of history

  Tasmania, in

  William Lyne and

  Windschuttle’s ‘Telling Histories’ lecture

  women

  Abyssinia, Tasmania

  Active (brig)

  Africa

  Agnarsdottir, Anna

  Ainsworth, Elizabeth

  Albion (ship)

  Albuera Street Cemetery, Hobart

  Aldgate, London (No 87)

  Alice Springs, Australia

  ammonium sulphates

  Amos, Adam

  Amundsen, Roald

  Anangarra waterhole, Australia

  Anchor tin mine, Lottah

  Andes

  Angus (a birder)

  Anstey, Thomas

  Antarctic explorers

  Antarctica

  Antient Masonry see also freemasonry

  ‘Apple Isle’

  Appledore, Devon

  Appledore, Tasmania

  Aracataca, Colombia

  Argentina

  Aristotle

  Arnold, Dr Thomas

  Arnold, Julia (née Sorell; Kemp’s granddaughter)

  Arnold’s Catholicism

  portrait of

  Arnold, Mary see Ward, Mary Augusta

  Arnold, Matthew

  Tom Brown’s Schooldays

  Arnold, Thomas

  Catholicism

  death

  New Zealand, in

  Resolution

  Arnott, Col John

  Arthur, Lieutenant Governor George

  Aborigines and

  Arthur River

  asthma

  Atkins, Judge

  Atlas (supply ship)

  Auckland, New Zealand

  Auden, W.H.

  Austin, Alexander

  Australia

  Baudin discovers new zoological species

  Commonwealth of (1900)

  first complete map

  first literature printed in

  Australia Day

  Austrialia del Espiritu Santo

  Avoca

  Babel Island

  Bacon, Jim

  Bagdad

  Bagdad News

  Baghdad, Iraq

  Bahama (a hulk)

  Baker, Corporal Arthur

  Baker, Ethel (née Hordern; Hordern’s daughter)

  Ballarat

  Balliol College, Oxford

  bandicoots

  Bank of Van Diemen’s Land

  Banks, Sir Joseph

  Barnstaple, Devon

  Barossa Valley

  Barrie, Sir J.M.

  Barrow, Margaret Louisa (Kemp’s daughter)

  Barrow, Samuel (Kemp’s son-in-law)

  Bartley, Major-General Sir George

  Bass, George

  Bass Strait

  Batavia

  Bathurst

  Bathurst, Lord

  Bathurst Harbour

  Battery Point

  Baudin, Nicolas

  BBC

  Beagle survey ship

  Beaumaris Zoo, Hobart

  Beauty Point

  beech, southern

  Bellerive, Hobart

  Bengal rum

  Benjafield, Harry

  Benjamin (a Tasmanian tiger)

  Bennelong (sick Aborigine on the Reliance)

  Bent’s News

  Beothuks of Newfoundland

  Bering Straits

  Bernacchi, Diego

  Berry, Roland

  Bertie (Hordern’s sister)

  Bertrams, The, Hobart

  Betjeman, Sir John

  bettong

  Bidencope, Con

  Bidencope, Zel

  Big Dog Island

  Big River tribe

  Binney, Sir Hugh and Lady

  Binzemann, Bruce

  birding see mutton-birds

  Bismarck (later Collinsvale)

  ‘black armband’ school

  Black Line

  ‘Black Mary’ (Howe’s companion)

  Black Panther of Emmaville

  black swans

  Black War

  blackberries

  Blackmore, Richard

  Lorna Doone

  Blainey, Geoffrey

  blasphemy

  Bligh, Governor William

  Blinking Billy Point, Tasmania

  Bliss House, Lindfield

  Blum, Maître

  boat-building industry

  Bodenham, Thomas

  Boer War

  Bombay (Mumbai)

  Bond, Ernie

  Bonwick, James

  Boode House, Devon

  Boode House, near North Motton

  Boomer Creek, Tasmania

  boomerangs

  Boon, David

  Bougainville, Louis Antoine de

  Boullanger, Charles-Pierre

  Bounty (a ship)

  Boyce, James

  Boyd, James

  Boyes, George

  brachiopods

  Braddon, Sir Edward

  Brady, Matthew

  Braunton, Devon

  Brazil

  Bredell, Maurice

  Breton, Midshipman François Desiré

  Bridport, Devon

  Bridport, Tasmania

  Briem, Dr Helgi

  Briggs, ‘Dolly’ Dalrymple

  Brighton, Tasmania

  Bristol Guardians of the Poor

  Britain

  France, relationship with

  Britannia

  British Zionist League

  Broad Arrow Café, Port Arthur (Carnarvon)

 

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