Australian settlers, on
Davenports
Davies, Humphrey
Davis, James
Dawson, James
Australian Aborigines: the languages and customs of several tribes of Aborigines in the western district of Victoria, Australia
Defoe, Daniel
Robinson Crusoe
Denisovans
Derrimut
portrait
Derwent River
Derwent Savings Bank
Despard, Edward Marcus
Dharug people
Dickens, Charles
disease
European, introduction of
Djargurd Wurrung people
djulin (goanna)
Dooangawn
Douglas, James (Earl of Morton)
Dreaming
Duckworth, Private James
Duke
Duterrau, Benjamin
Dutigalla see Melbourne Dynnyrne House
dysentery
Eagers, Daniel
Eagers, Julia
Buckley, marriage to
death
madness
Eagers, Mary Ann see Jackson, Mary Ann
Eddington, Margaret
Elsinore
Endeavour
Enterprize
Eora people
Erebus
escaping
Buckley’s escape
cannibalism, and
Essex
eucalypt, burning
Ewing, Reverend Thomas
Fawkner, Betsy
Fawkner, Eliza (nee Cobb)
Fawkner, Hannah
Fawkner, John Pascoe ‘Johnny’
Batman, and
Buckley, and
character
death
Melbourne, founding of
Port Phillip, in
Wedge, and
Fawkner, John (senior)
Fennessy, Edward
Fennessy, Edward (son)
Fennessy, Ellen
Fennessy, John
Fennessy, Mary Anne
Fennessy, Peggy
First Fleet
Very First Fleet
FitzRoy, Robert
Flavell, James
Flinders, Matthew
Flinders Island
Framlingham
France
French explorers
Franklin, Sir John
explorer
Franks, Charles
Fraser, Eliza
Fraser Island
Frederick, Prince (Duke of York)
song
French Island
French Revolution
Friendship
Fry, Reverend Henry
Fyans, Foster ‘Flogger’
Buckley, and
death
Norfolk Island, on
Geelong
Gellibrand, Joseph Tice ‘Joe’
Batman’s ‘treaty’
Buckley, and
disappearance
rape case
Gellibrand, Tom
George III, King
madness
Gibraltar mutiny
Gibson, David
Gipps, George
Gleig, George
Glenorchy
Glover, John
gold rush
Goodall, William
Goodridge, Charles Medyett
Statistical View of Van Diemen’s Land
Goodwin, Sophie
Goodwin, William Lushington
Goondel
Gould, John
Grant, Charles (Lord Glenelg)
Great Barrier Reef
Great Western Tiers
Greenhill, Robert
Gregory, Edmund
Gregson, Thomas
Grimes, Edward
Grove, James
Gulf of Carpentaria
Gulidjan people
Gumm, Jim
Gunai people
Gunditjmara people
Gweagal people
Hadden, William
Harris, Margaret
Hawkesbury River
Hawson, Henry
Hepburn, John
Hesse, George
Hetty
Heyes, John
Higgins, Daniel see Eagers, Daniel
Higgins, Julia see Eagers, Julia
Higgins, Mary Ann see Eagers, Mary Ann
Hobart, Lord
Hobart Town
character
theatre
Hobart Town Advertiser
Homo sapiens
Honduras
Hone, Joseph
hope
Hotham, Baron
Howe, Michael
Hull, William
Hume, Hamilton
Indented Head
Indonesia
Industrial Revolution Investigator (HMS)
Irish accent
Jackson, Mary Ann (nee Eagers)
Jackson, William
Jamaica
Janszoon, William
Jeffries, Thomas
Joe the Marine
Johnson, Elizabeth
Johnson, Joseph ‘Joe’
Johnson, Samuel
Jones, William
Juan Fernandez Archipelago
kadak (snake)
Kains
kallallingurk (tomahawk)
Karaaf River
Karkeen
Keilor Plains
Keyeet balug clan
Kilcarer gundidj clan
King, Captain Phillip Parker
King, Governor Philip
Knopwood, Reverend Robert
death
Kolakgnat clan
koorong (ship)
Kulin people
kuwiyn (fish)
La Trobe, Charles
Lady Nelson
Lake Modewarre
Lamb, William (Lord Melbourne)
Lancaster Sound
Lancefield
Lancey, John
Langhorne, Reverend George
government mission, establishment of
Melbourne, naming of
Langstone Harbour
languages
Aboriginal
criminal
Launceston
Launceston Advertiser
Lavater, Johann Kaspar
Le Merchant, John Gaspard
Lee, George
Leichhardt, Ludwig
Lewis, Michael
Lhotsky, Dr John
The Life and Adventures of William Buckley
London
Lonsdale, Captain William
Lysons, Daniel
Lysons, Samuel
McAllenan, Daniel
Macassan traders
Macdonald, Sergeant Samuel
McIntyre, John
Mack, Elizabeth
McKeever, Patrick
Macquarie, Governor Lachlan
Macquarie Harbour
Magellan
magic see superstition, witchcraft Maori
Marmon, William
escape
Marton, Cheshire
oak tree
Màs a Tierra
Mayhew, Henry
London Labour and the London Poor
Mazot, Captain
measles
Melbourne
official naming of
street plan
Melville, Henry
Melville, Herman
Moby-Dick
Mercer, George
Merland, Constant
military service
battlefield experience
recruitment
missionaries
Montagu, John
Moreton Bay
Morgan, John
death
Morpor people
Morton, Samuel
Moses, John
Moss, John
Mt Ben Lomond
Mt Buninyong
Mt Cottrell
Mt Elliott
>
Mt Emu Creek
Mt Noorat
Mt Wellington
Murdering Gully massacre
murnong (yam daisy)
Murradonnanuke
Murrangurk see Buckley, William ‘Murrangurk’
Murray, Lieutenant John
Murray River
Murrells, James
Musquito
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleonic Wars
Naylor, Joseph
Neanderthals
Nelson, Admiral Horatio
Netherlands
New Holland
New Zealand
‘Noble Savage’
Nooraki
Norfolk Island
North American Indians
horse, introduction of
North West Bay
Northwest Passage expedition
Nullarbor
Ocean
Offa, King
Old Bull
One O’Clock – or The Knight & the Wood Demon
Orton, Reverend Joseph Rennard
Ottley, Lieutenant John
Oyster Bay people
Papua New Guinea
Parsons, Charles
Pateshall, Nicholas
Pearce, Alexander
Peerapper people
Pelletier, Narcisse
Pemulwuy
Pennefather River
Perry, John
Peruvian
Phillip, Governor Arthur
physiognomy
Picknell, Charles
Pigeon
Port Campbell National Park
Port Jackson
Port Phillip
Aboriginal people, treatment of
Crown land
establishment of colony
lawlessness
Port Phillip Association
Port Phillip Bay
land occupation around
Portland
Portland
Portsmouth Harbour
Power, Hannah
Power, Matthew
Price, Morgan
Princess of Wales
prison hulks
crimes on board
mortality rates
Proctor, Maria see Collins, Maria Punch
Purranmurnin Tallarwurnin
Pye, George
rape
Aboriginal woman
Rattlesnake (HMS)
Rebecca
Reed, Henry
Retribution
Richardson, Elizabeth
Rio de Janeiro
Robertson, William
Robinson Crusoe
Robinson, George Augustus
Rogers, Captain Woodes
Rolepana
Rossel Island
Rote
Rum Rebellion
Russell, George
Saint-Gilles-du-Gard
St John-Mildmay, Sir Henry
St Mary’s Hospital
Saint Paul
Sallust
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
battle for
scurvy
Second Fleet
Selkirk, Alexander
Seven Years War
shark fishing
sheep
Shore, Charles
slavery
smallpox
Smith, Sydney
sodomy
Solomon, Ikey
Southampton (HMS)
Spring Creek
Stanway, Elizabeth (nee Buckley)
Stanway, James
Steel, William
Stewart, George
Stocker, Ann
Stradling, Thomas
Struensee, Johann
Stuart, Margaret
Sullivan Bay
superstition
Aboriginal
Swanston, Charles
Sydney Cove
Tahiti
Tamar River
Tanapia
tanderrum (safe passage ceremony)
Tarnbeere gundidj clan
Tasmania
Taylor, Frederick
Taylor, James
Tenerife
Teredo navalis
terra nullius
Terror
Thames River
Thomas, John
Thompson, Alex
Thompson, Barbara
Thorne, Sergeant
Todd, William
Buckley, and
Trafalgar, Battle of
transit of Venus 1769
transportation
children
mortality rates
occupations of convicts
paying for better quarters
wives of convicts
Travers, Matthew
Treaty of Amiens
Tripp, William
The True Colonist
Tuckey, Lieutenant, James Hingston
Congo expedition
Port Phillip Bay, on
Tupaia
typhus
Tyrie, David
Van Diemen’s Company
Van Diemen’s Land
Aboriginals, treatment of
labourers, arrival of
Vaux, James Hardy
A New and Comprehensive Vocabulary of the Flash Language
Very First Fleet
Victory
Vikings
Von Stieglitz, Robert
waa (crow)
Waarengbadawa people
Wadawaurrung balug clan
Wadawurrung people
deaths
Walsh, John
Wanthala clan group
Wapping
Wardy Yalloak River
Waterfield, Reverend William
Waterloo, Battle of
Watkins, William
weather
Wedge, John Helder
Aboriginal artefacts, collecting
Buckley’s pardon
death
Fawkner, and
Narrative of an Excursion amongst the Natives of Port Phillip on the South Coast of New Holland
Weeratt Kuynut (‘eel spear’)
Wellesley, Arthur (Duke of Wellington)
Werribee
Werribee River
West, John
Western Port
Western Timor
whaling industry
Wheete
White, Charles
Whitehead, John
Wil-im-ee Moor-ring (‘the axe-place’)
William Buckley, the Wild White Man and his Port Phillip Black Friends
William V, Prince
Willoughby, William
Wills, Maria Medland
Wilson, John
witchcraft
Woiwurrung people
Wongerrer balug people
Woodriff, Captain Daniel
Woolmudgin
Woolwich
Woorongo
Wurundjeri people
Wurundjeri-willam clan
Wyatt, Robert
Yalukit Willam
Yarra River
Yarra Yarra
Yate, Ann
You Yang hills
Zheng He, Admiral
Garry Linnell is one of Australia’s most experienced journalists. A Walkley Award winner for feature writing, he has been editor-in-chief of The Bulletin, editor of The Daily Telegraph, director of news and current affairs for the Nine Network and editorial director of Fairfax. He spent four years as co-host of the Breakfast Show on 2UE and is also the author of three previous books – Football Ltd: The Inside Story of the AFL; Raelene: Sometimes Beaten, Never Conquered, and Playing God: The Rise and Fall of Gary Ablett.
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