Places mentioned in quotes from colonial sources, compiled by Ray Kerkhove.

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Colonial accounts of Indigenous people.

"The bunya pine tree fruits every year to a certain extent, but in every third March it gives forth a prolific crop of Bunya nuts. This fact was known to the black man, and from all points of the compass he came, from the Downs, Moreton Boy, the Burnett, the Dawson, and from, far down the Condamine river. In fact, I heard my father say that on one occasion he saw a tribe of Barcoo blacks arrive. A lean, gaunt miserable lot they were, but they went away happy, and with skins as sleek as mice. The Bunya festive season used to last about six weeks, and, strange though it may seem, the blacks would arrive almost simultaneously on the mountains. By what means they measured time over a period of three years, and calculated with such precision the exact month in every third year when the bunya pines would be in full fruit is somewhat difficult for us to understand. We knew that the black man measured time by moon periods, but how he calculated the number of moons that would occur between one season and another, and kept a correct record of them is one of those things known only to themselves."

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"(Petrie in Brisbane joined)...with a party of a hundred, counting the women and the children... They camped the first night at Bu-yu (Enoggera)... (Next) night... happened to be at the Pine (River)....The third night they camped at Caboolture... and next day started for the
Glasshouse Mountains... On the fourth day, at about 4 o'clock (pm), the party arrived near Mooloolah..."
- CC Petrie, Tom Petrie's Reminiscences of Early Queensland (Brisbane:
Angus & Robinson, 1983), p 12-15

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(King) John Harvey, better known as ... the King of Laidley (one of the
most accomplished of the Queensland Aboriginal Monarchs), passed
through Toowoomba yesterday... Accompanied by his ...spouse, (he)
was ... pleased to inform us that he had been to the Bunya Bunya
Mountain, to ascertain, by personal observation and investigation, the
actual position of the two rival tribes — those occupying the district
around Maryborough and Wide Bay District, and those on the Darling
Downs and Ipswich districts."
"King John asserts that the Wide Bay and Maryborough blacks have
long acted in a haughty, over bearing, and taunting manner towards
24
their neighbours on the Downs and in the Ipswich district, which
culminated in an appeal to arms. The rival commanders mustered
their men-of-war and, by mutual consent, the forces met each other
in the field at the Bunya Bunya Mountain. The conflict is described as
having been short, sharp, and decisive, the Wide Bay and
Maryborough blacks being beaten at all points, and fleeing in the
greatest disorder, leaving the moderate number of 0000 (no) dead on
the field. The victorious heroes were in ecstasies of delight at the
glorious triumph they had achieved.'
- Toowoomba Chronicle, 'War,' re-printed in The Cornwall Chronicle (Launceston)
Saturday 29 June 1867, p 2

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Colonial accounts of Indigenous people.

(King) John Harvey, better known as ... the King of Laidley (one of the
most accomplished of the Queensland Aboriginal Monarchs), passed
through Toowoomba yesterday... Accompanied by his ...spouse, (he)
was ... pleased to inform us that he had been to the Bunya Bunya
Mountain, to ascertain, by personal observation and investigation, the
actual position of the two rival tribes — those occupying the district
around Maryborough and Wide Bay District, and those on the Darling
Downs and Ipswich districts."
"King John asserts that the Wide Bay and Maryborough blacks have
long acted in a haughty, over bearing, and taunting manner towards
24
their neighbours on the Downs and in the Ipswich district, which
culminated in an appeal to arms. The rival commanders mustered
their men-of-war and, by mutual consent, the forces met each other
in the field at the Bunya Bunya Mountain. The conflict is described as
having been short, sharp, and decisive, the Wide Bay and
Maryborough blacks being beaten at all points, and fleeing in the
greatest disorder, leaving the moderate number of 0000 (no) dead on
the field. The victorious heroes were in ecstasies of delight at the
glorious triumph they had achieved.'
- Toowoomba Chronicle, 'War,' re-printed in The Cornwall Chronicle (Launceston)
Saturday 29 June 1867, p 2

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Colonial accounts of Indigenous people.

(King) John Harvey, better known as ... the King of Laidley (one of the
most accomplished of the Queensland Aboriginal Monarchs), passed
through Toowoomba yesterday... Accompanied by his ...spouse, (he)
was ... pleased to inform us that he had been to the Bunya Bunya
Mountain, to ascertain, by personal observation and investigation, the
actual position of the two rival tribes — those occupying the district
around Maryborough and Wide Bay District, and those on the Darling
Downs and Ipswich districts."
"King John asserts that the Wide Bay and Maryborough blacks have
long acted in a haughty, over bearing, and taunting manner towards
24
their neighbours on the Downs and in the Ipswich district, which
culminated in an appeal to arms. The rival commanders mustered
their men-of-war and, by mutual consent, the forces met each other
in the field at the Bunya Bunya Mountain. The conflict is described as
having been short, sharp, and decisive, the Wide Bay and
Maryborough blacks being beaten at all points, and fleeing in the
greatest disorder, leaving the moderate number of 0000 (no) dead on
the field. The victorious heroes were in ecstasies of delight at the
glorious triumph they had achieved.'
- Toowoomba Chronicle, 'War,' re-printed in The Cornwall Chronicle (Launceston)
Saturday 29 June 1867, p 2

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"I went to Booroon. A creek, fed by shady gulleys of the brushes, passes it; low ranges, all covered with thick brush, all of the igneous formation, surround it; many a bunya tree looks down on the capers of the children of the forest and brush, of plain and mountain, of sea coast and of the country inland." - The Letters of F W Ludwig Leichhardt December 1843 Vol. 2, p 795

"There was also a small open plain called "Booroon," (Baroon Pocket Maleny), the name of the bora ceremony in the Mary River dialect, and there the men fought in single combats, and threw the spear and boomerang, and had wrestling and running matches, and there, too, the young men went through their initiation ceremonies..." - Archibald Meston, 'The Bunya Feast Mobilan's Former Glory,'. In the Wild Romantic Days,' The Brisbane Courier (Qld), Saturday 6 October 1923, p 18

"This plain they call Baroon, and it seems the rendezvous for ights between the hostile tribes who came from far and near to enjoy the feast of the bunya..." - John Archer, 1884 in Stan Tutt, Sunshine Coast History Brisbane: Discover 1994, p 146

"The great Bunya Scrub, called Boorum by the natives, from an open space in the middle of it, where they hold their great meetings..." - 'Report 2nd Additional Remarks on the Bunya District and Its Natives,' Simpson Letter-book AD 1842, in G Langevad, Cultural & Historical Records of Queensland, No. 1, July 1979 St Lucia: Anthropology Dept, Uni of Qld, p 2

"Booroom... takes this direction perhaps for 50 miles from north to south, is almost impenetrable except by crawling on the hands and knees. Here the bunya is plentiful and in the month of January, the blacks assemble for hundreds of miles round, and partake of the fruit....." - 'Statement of Bracewell and Davis as to the Supposed Administration of Poison to Some Blacks by White Men,' Simpson Letter-book AD 1842, G Langevad, Cultural & Historical Records of Queensland, No. 1, July 1979 St Lucia: Anthropology Dept, Uni of Qld.

"In the early days, the Blackall Ranges was spoken of as the Bon-yi Mountains and it was there that Duramboi and Bracewell joined the feasts, and there also that father saw it all." - CC Petrie, Tom Petrie's Reminiscences of Early Queensland (Brisbane: Angus & Robinson, 1983), p 12

"The Maroochy District was the home of the great bunya forest." - Audienne Blyth John Low's House and Family, Yandina - Koongalba 1894- 1994 Yandina 1994 , p 38

"This (Nambour/ Maroochy district) is the great bunya country. It extends about 10 miles further south and goes north to about Pinbarren." - William Pettigrew 1865 in Rev. Joseph Taiton,, Marutchi History of the Sunshine Coast Nambour: Taiton, 1976, p 103

"The Bunya Bunya tree (here) is conined to a narrow belt of elevated country on the coast range, averaging from twelve and a half miles wide by twenty ive in length...." - Journal; of a Naturalist Continues, The Argus (Melbourne) Monday 1 July 1850, Page 4 (NB Leichhardt describes the area as "10 miles wide by 50 miles long").

"(There) were large forests of those trees in the early days (around the Blackall Ranges etc.). They lourish still in places, but nothing has been done to protect them..." - J Zillman, In the Land of the Bunya Sydney: W. Dryrock, 1899, p 18

"(Bunya pines) clothed the (Blackall) range.... (with) almost impenetrable scrub.... (and) red cedar of 20 ft girth..." - Dave Hankinson Reminiscences of Maleny Maleny: Maleny & District Centenary Committee 1978, p 3-4

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"The blacks appear to have been busied for some days past in firing the bush, which at nearly all points around Brisbane has during the past week been blazing with much vigour. If this burning off be followed by the rains so much wanted, we shall doubtlessly have the pleasure of seeing the now scorched and blackened ground soon covered with a rich carpet of verdure... These fires of the blacks, according to their own account, are for the purpose of summoning the tribes to the feast of the Bunya Bunya."
- Domestic Intelligence , The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane), Monday
10 February 1851, p 2

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"(Petrie in Brisbane joined)...with a party of a hundred, counting the women and the children... They camped the first night at Bu-yu (Enoggera)... (Next) night... happened to be at the Pine (River)....The third night they camped at Caboolture... and next day started for the
Glasshouse Mountains... On the fourth day, at about 4 o'clock (pm), the party arrived near Mooloolah..."
- CC Petrie, Tom Petrie's Reminiscences of Early Queensland (Brisbane:
Angus & Robinson, 1983), p 12-15

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"...the bunya harvest... this year (is) a very poor one, and scarcely
worth the battle the Myall and the Burnett tribes are about to fight,
according to annual custom, somewhere on the Burnett side of the
Range."
- The Brisbane Courier (Qld), Monday 10 April 1865, p 3

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"(Petrie in Brisbane joined)...with a party of a hundred, counting the women and the children... They camped the first night at Bu-yu (Enoggera)... (Next) night... happened to be at the Pine (River)....The third night they camped at Caboolture... and next day started for the
Glasshouse Mountains... On the fourth day, at about 4 o'clock (pm), the party arrived near Mooloolah..."
- CC Petrie, Tom Petrie's Reminiscences of Early Queensland (Brisbane:
Angus & Robinson, 1983), p 12-15

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"We tried hard to induce Diamond to accompany us to Bribie's Island; but, although he first promised to do so, he afterwards changed his
mind, and said he was going to the Bunya Bunya (feast). ...."
"1st February, started early .... At Kalounda (Caloundra) we found a camp recently deserted, as the fires were still burning. The blacks we
took with us said the occupants of the camps had left for the Bunya that morning, whither they followed that afternoon."
- R B Sheridan, Mr Sheridan's Account of the Search for the Missing Men, The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane), Wednesday 9 February 1859, p. 2
- (Pie Creek Gympie)

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"Candle Mountain (near Peachester - height about 1200 ft.) is so called because the blacks in the early days lit a fire on its top as a signal to other tribes to congregate for the bunya feast. It is situated near the head of the Stanley River in Queensland. From the top, a beautiful view is obtained of the Glass House Mountains, the ocean, and Moreton Bay."
On Candle Mountain in days gone by
When blacks were wont to roam,
And from its top up towards the sky
The smoke rose white as foam.*
This was a signal sent to tell the other tribes afar
That for a time all would be well,
And there would not be war....
- "OLD HAND." The Bunya Feast The Queenslander (Brisbane) Thursday 16 August 1934, p 5
NOTE: Bunya bark and bunya nut shell gives off a very white smoke when burnt (Alex Bond, per. comm., 2012).

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"This is hardly a full listing. Other records, and oral and anecdotal accounts speak of visitors
from Charleville, the Central Highlands (Carnarvon Gorge area), the Coffs Harbour
region, Dubbo and (presumably much less often) even further afield some claiming e
ven (presumably sporadic visitors?) from Cooper Creek, South Australia and Victoria. Finally,
it should be noted that the information below only lists the areas the white observers
had noticed, knew existed and bothered to mention in their writings."
The Great Bunya Gathering
Early Accounts
Dr. Ray Kerkhove

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Colonial accounts of Indigenous people.

"This is hardly a full listing. Other records, and oral and anecdotal accounts speak of visitors
from Charleville, the Central Highlands (Carnarvon Gorge area), the Coffs Harbour
region, Dubbo and (presumably much less often) even further afield some claiming e
ven (presumably sporadic visitors?) from Cooper Creek, South Australia and Victoria. Finally,
it should be noted that the information below only lists the areas the white observers
had noticed, knew existed and bothered to mention in their writings."
The Great Bunya Gathering
Early Accounts
Dr. Ray Kerkhove

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"The hordes came up the Condamine and Charleys Creek and went across where water was not hard to find avoiding the crests of
ranges."
- 1/120 - letter from KE to Mr Clancy JOL, OM 78-2, Kathleen Emmerson Papers

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Colonial accounts of Indigenous people.

"This is hardly a full listing. Other records, and oral and anecdotal accounts speak of visitors
from Charleville, the Central Highlands (Carnarvon Gorge area), the Coffs Harbour
region, Dubbo and (presumably much less often) even further afield some claiming e
ven (presumably sporadic visitors?) from Cooper Creek, South Australia and Victoria. Finally,
it should be noted that the information below only lists the areas the white observers
had noticed, knew existed and bothered to mention in their writings."
The Great Bunya Gathering
Early Accounts
Dr. Ray Kerkhove

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Colonial accounts of Indigenous people.

"The hordes came up the Condamine and Charleys Creek and went across where water was not hard to find avoiding the crests of ranges."
- 1/120 - letter from KE to Mr Clancy JOL, OM 78-2, Kathleen Emmerson
Papers

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"Surveyor Hector Munrotold of a (native) group from Goondiwindi
who, without approval, cut steps into a tree owned by a local leader
called 'Kangaroo'According to Hector, the Dalby people, who had
escorted the Goondiwindi people into the Bunya Mountains, stopped
them and sent word to 'Kangaroo.' He arrived, appraised the situation
and challenged (them) to a battle, at the next bunya feast."
- Nils Holmer, Linguistic Survey of South-eastern Queensland, Canberra :
Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National
University, 1983., p 28

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Colonial accounts of Indigenous people.

(King) John Harvey, better known as ... the King of Laidley (one of the
most accomplished of the Queensland Aboriginal Monarchs), passed
through Toowoomba yesterday... Accompanied by his ...spouse, (he)
was ... pleased to inform us that he had been to the Bunya Bunya
Mountain, to ascertain, by personal observation and investigation, the
actual position of the two rival tribes — those occupying the district
around Maryborough and Wide Bay District, and those on the Darling
Downs and Ipswich districts."
"King John asserts that the Wide Bay and Maryborough blacks have
long acted in a haughty, over bearing, and taunting manner towards
24
their neighbours on the Downs and in the Ipswich district, which
culminated in an appeal to arms. The rival commanders mustered
their men-of-war and, by mutual consent, the forces met each other
in the field at the Bunya Bunya Mountain. The conflict is described as
having been short, sharp, and decisive, the Wide Bay and
Maryborough blacks being beaten at all points, and fleeing in the
greatest disorder, leaving the moderate number of 0000 (no) dead on
the field. The victorious heroes were in ecstasies of delight at the
glorious triumph they had achieved.'
- Toowoomba Chronicle, 'War,' re-printed in The Cornwall Chronicle (Launceston)
Saturday 29 June 1867, p 2

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"(Petrie in Brisbane joined)...with a party of a hundred, counting the women and the children... They camped the first night at Bu-yu (Enoggera)... (Next) night... happened to be at the Pine (River)....The third night they camped at Caboolture... and next day started for the
Glasshouse Mountains... On the fourth day, at about 4 o'clock (pm), the party arrived near Mooloolah..."
- CC Petrie, Tom Petrie's Reminiscences

"The bunya bunya fruit is ripe. They are eating it. Let us - tomorrow -
go for bunya!"
"Where is my basket? Here it lies. I must take it to the Bunya."
"There's a (bunya) fruit here. Will you throw it down?"
- Conversations recorded amongst people camped at Enoggera in1850s,
about leaving for the Bunyas in William Ridley, Notebook (mss John Oxley
Library), 1855

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"Tribes used to come from the Moonie, the Dawson, and Morton every year. They used to camp at Warmga Creek for the three months of the season. Warmga creek used to be lit up like Queens Street"
- Johnny King, son of the Princess, Humphreys, Bonyi Bonyi, Nanango: Wyndham Observer, 1999, p 76

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"(At Deception Bay) they are in great haste... in order to follow the others to the Bunya Country"
- Rev. Schmidt 1842 in Thom Blake & Peter Osborne, Deception Bay The History of a Seaside Community Caboolture Shire 2008, p 10

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Colonial accounts of Indigenous people.

"This is hardly a full listing. Other records, and oral and anecdotal accounts speak of visitors
from Charleville, the Central Highlands (Carnarvon Gorge area), the Coffs Harbour
region, Dubbo and (presumably much less often) even further afield some claiming e
ven (presumably sporadic visitors?) from Cooper Creek, South Australia and Victoria. Finally,
it should be noted that the information below only lists the areas the white observers
had noticed, knew existed and bothered to mention in their writings."
The Great Bunya Gathering
Early Accounts
Dr. Ray Kerkhove

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Colonial accounts of Indigenous people.

"From the vicinity of Goondiwindi and the New South Wales border ... some 1,500 natives (arrived for the bunya bunya) .... the Dalby police force is totally inadequate to cope with such overwhelming odds"
- Dalby Herald, 24/5/1866

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"Surveyor Hector Munro told of a (native) group from Goondiwindi
who, without approval, cut steps into a tree owned by a local leader
called 'Kangaroo'According to Hector, the Dalby people, who had
escorted the Goondiwindi people into the Bunya Mountains, stopped
them and sent word to 'Kangaroo.' He arrived, appraised the situation
and challenged (them) to a battle, at the next bunya feast."
- Nils Holmer, Linguistic Survey of South-eastern Queensland, Canberra :
Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National
University, 1983., p 28

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Colonial accounts of Indigenous people.

"(Petrie in Brisbane joined)...with a party of a hundred, counting the women and the children... They camped the first night at Bu-yu (Enoggera)... (Next) night... happened to be at the Pine (River)....The third night they camped at Caboolture... and next day started for the
Glasshouse Mountains... On the fourth day, at about 4 o'clock (pm), the party arrived near Mooloolah..."
- CC Petrie, Tom Petrie's Reminiscences of Early Queensland (Brisbane:
Angus & Robinson, 1983), p 12-15

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Colonial accounts of Indigenous people.

(King) John Harvey, better known as ... the King of Laidley (one of the
most accomplished of the Queensland Aboriginal Monarchs), passed
through Toowoomba yesterday... Accompanied by his ...spouse, (he)
was ... pleased to inform us that he had been to the Bunya Bunya
Mountain, to ascertain, by personal observation and investigation, the
actual position of the two rival tribes — those occupying the district
around Maryborough and Wide Bay District, and those on the Darling
Downs and Ipswich districts."
"King John asserts that the Wide Bay and Maryborough blacks have
long acted in a haughty, over bearing, and taunting manner towards
24
their neighbours on the Downs and in the Ipswich district, which
culminated in an appeal to arms. The rival commanders mustered
their men-of-war and, by mutual consent, the forces met each other
in the field at the Bunya Bunya Mountain. The conflict is described as
having been short, sharp, and decisive, the Wide Bay and
Maryborough blacks being beaten at all points, and fleeing in the
greatest disorder, leaving the moderate number of 0000 (no) dead on
the field. The victorious heroes were in ecstasies of delight at the
glorious triumph they had achieved.'
- Toowoomba Chronicle, 'War,' re-printed in The Cornwall Chronicle (Launceston)
Saturday 29 June 1867, p 2

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Colonial accounts of Indigenous people.

"(King) John Harvey, better known as ... the King of Laidley (one of the
most accomplished of the Queensland Aboriginal Monarchs), passed
through Toowoomba yesterday... Accompanied by his ...spouse, (he)
was ... pleased to inform us that he had been to the Bunya Bunya
Mountain, to ascertain, by personal observation and investigation, the
actual position of the two rival tribes — those occupying the district
around Maryborough and Wide Bay District, and those on the Darling
Downs and Ipswich districts.
"King John asserts that the Wide Bay and Maryborough blacks have
long acted in a haughty, over bearing, and taunting manner towards
24
their neighbours on the Downs and in the Ipswich district, which
culminated in an appeal to arms. The rival commanders mustered
their men-of-war and, by mutual consent, the forces met each other
in the field at the Bunya Bunya Mountain. The conflict is described as
having been short, sharp, and decisive, the Wide Bay and
Maryborough blacks being beaten at all points, and fleeing in the
greatest disorder, leaving the moderate number of 0000 (no) dead on
the field. The victorious heroes were in ecstasies of delight at the
glorious triumph they had achieved.'
- Toowoomba Chronicle, 'War,' re-printed in The Cornwall Chronicle (Launceston)
Saturday 29 June 1867, p 2

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Colonial accounts of Indigenous people.

(King) John Harvey, better known as ... the King of Laidley (one of the
most accomplished of the Queensland Aboriginal Monarchs), passed
through Toowoomba yesterday... Accompanied by his ...spouse, (he)
was ... pleased to inform us that he had been to the Bunya Bunya
Mountain, to ascertain, by personal observation and investigation, the
actual position of the two rival tribes — those occupying the district
around Maryborough and Wide Bay District, and those on the Darling
Downs and Ipswich districts."
"King John asserts that the Wide Bay and Maryborough blacks have
long acted in a haughty, over bearing, and taunting manner towards
24
their neighbours on the Downs and in the Ipswich district, which
culminated in an appeal to arms. The rival commanders mustered
their men-of-war and, by mutual consent, the forces met each other
in the field at the Bunya Bunya Mountain. The conflict is described as
having been short, sharp, and decisive, the Wide Bay and
Maryborough blacks being beaten at all points, and fleeing in the
greatest disorder, leaving the moderate number of 0000 (no) dead on
the field. The victorious heroes were in ecstasies of delight at the
glorious triumph they had achieved.'
- Toowoomba Chronicle, 'War,' re-printed in The Cornwall Chronicle (Launceston)
Saturday 29 June 1867, p 2

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"In late January the 'traffic' was always heavy... Grandad would tell of the people on their northerly trek. He spoke of the long, thin, dusty,
scrawny people appearing to be in no hurry. Sometimes a group would camp for a night on the northern ridge (of Meringandan) and hunt wallabies - but the lure of the Bunyas... would draw them on..."
- Ben Gilbert, Who Bide in Ancient Valleys, p 36-7

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Colonial accounts of Indigenous people.

"Tribes used to come from the Moonie, the Dawson, and Morton every year. They used to camp at Warmga Creek for the three months of the season. Warmga creek used to be lit up like Queens Street"
- Johnny King, son of the Princess, Humphreys, Bonyi Bonyi, Nanango: Wyndham Observer, 1999, p 76

]]> 152.3858543,-27.4856892 #TLCMapStyle

Colonial accounts of Indigenous people.

"Tribes used to come from the Moonie, the Dawson, and Morton every year. They used to camp at Warmga Creek for the three months of the season. Warmga creek used to be lit up like Queens Street"
- Johnny King, son of the Princess, Humphreys, Bonyi Bonyi, Nanango: Wyndham Observer, 1999, p 76

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Colonial accounts of Indigenous people.

Mt Mowbullan signalling north and west, from Pt Turbayne signalling to the east, from Coyne's lookout, signalling to the south... (Possibly) the
balds (were) from bonfires for smoke signalling"
- J C Bennie, 'The Bunya Mountains Early Feasting Ground of the Blacks,
The Dalby Herald, 1931, p 2

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Colonial accounts of Indigenous people.

[This is indicated as a point not a creek, so this location is probably wrong, though in the vicinity] "Coastal and inland aborigines would gather at Munna Point and hold corroborees before they set off for the bunya feast. As they went along,
they would spread out to hunt for food."
- (Reminiscences of Bull and others in) 'The Aborgines,' Tewantin State School Project, History of the Tewantin-Noosa District 1957, p21

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Colonial accounts of Indigenous people.

"...the bunya harvest... this year (is) a very poor one, and scarcely
worth the battle the Myall and the Burnett tribes are about to fight,
according to annual custom, somewhere on the Burnett side of the
Range."
- The Brisbane Courier (Qld), Monday 10 April 1865, p 3

]]> 152.9962845,-27.3148048 #TLCMapStyle

Colonial accounts of Indigenous people.

"(Petrie in Brisbane joined)...with a party of a hundred, counting the women and the children... They camped the first night at Bu-yu (Enoggera)... (Next) night... happened to be at the Pine (River)....The third night they camped at Caboolture... and next day started for the
Glasshouse Mountains... On the fourth day, at about 4 o'clock (pm), the party arrived near Mooloolah..."
- CC Petrie, Tom Petrie's Reminiscences of Early Queensland (Brisbane:
Angus & Robinson, 1983), p 12-15

]]> 151.532475,-26.9564669 #TLCMapStyle

Colonial accounts of Indigenous people.

"Tribes used to come from the Moonie, the Dawson, and Morton every year. They used to camp at Warmga Creek for the three months of the season. Warmga creek used to be lit up like Queens Street"
- Johnny King, son of the Princess, Humphreys, Bonyi Bonyi, Nanango: Wyndham Observer, 1999, p 76

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Colonial accounts of Indigenous people.

"The big bunya season came around every three years and the blacks always followed it, but in the off seasons."
- Zacharaih Skyring, 'Article 11 Hunting with the Wide Bay Blacks,' Gympie in
the Cradle Days n/d (c.1900?)

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Colonial accounts of Indigenous people.

(King) John Harvey, better known as ... the King of Laidley (one of the
most accomplished of the Queensland Aboriginal Monarchs), passed
through Toowoomba yesterday... Accompanied by his ...spouse, (he)
was ... pleased to inform us that he had been to the Bunya Bunya
Mountain, to ascertain, by personal observation and investigation, the
actual position of the two rival tribes — those occupying the district
around Maryborough and Wide Bay District, and those on the Darling
Downs and Ipswich districts."
"King John asserts that the Wide Bay and Maryborough blacks have
long acted in a haughty, over bearing, and taunting manner towards
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their neighbours on the Downs and in the Ipswich district, which
culminated in an appeal to arms. The rival commanders mustered
their men-of-war and, by mutual consent, the forces met each other
in the field at the Bunya Bunya Mountain. The conflict is described as
having been short, sharp, and decisive, the Wide Bay and
Maryborough blacks being beaten at all points, and fleeing in the
greatest disorder, leaving the moderate number of 0000 (no) dead on
the field. The victorious heroes were in ecstasies of delight at the
glorious triumph they had achieved.'
- Toowoomba Chronicle, 'War,' re-printed in The Cornwall Chronicle (Launceston)
Saturday 29 June 1867, p 2

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