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| Name | Humanitarians in the Antipodes: Macquarie Harbour |
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| Description | A visualisation of the investigative tours of British Quakers, James Backhouse and George Washington Walker, who were 'travelling under concern' in the Southern oceans in 1830s. This section relates to their inspection of the Macquarie Harbour Penal Station in Tasmania. |
| Type | Journey |
| Subject | colonialism, religious society of friends, quakers, colonial history, james backhouse, george washington walker, transnational human rights activism |
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| Number of places | 9 |
| Contributor | Heidi Ing |
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| Creator | Penny Edmonds |
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| Contact | penny.edmonds@flinders.edu.au |
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| Source URL | https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634 |
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| Allow ANPS? | No |
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| Date From | 1832-05-10 |
| Date To | 1832-06-22 |
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| Added | 2024-06-18 17:33:31 |
| Updated | 2024-06-18 17:33:53 |
🌏 On the Tamar sailing from Sullivans Cove to Macquarie Harbour with Backhouse and Walker were, ‘John Burn, the captain for the voyage, Henry Herberg, the mate, David Hoy, a ship's carpenter, Jno. A. Manton’ along with 10 ‘private soldiers and a sergeant, as guard’, 2 soldiers' wives with 5 children, 12 seamen ‘several of whom were convicts’, and 18 ‘prisoners under sentence to the Penal Settlement’.
- Placename
- Sullivans Cove, Hobart, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Location, Dates
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Macquarie Habour
- People
- John Burn; Henry Herberg; David Hoy; Jno. A. Manton; Convicts
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 36-38
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
🌏 After 'passing between the Acteon Islands and Recherche Bay', the Tamar 'rounded the Whales-head', 'came into the open sea' and sailed into 'the middle harbour of Port Davey' where they remained for seventeen days.
- Placename
- Port Davey, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Location, Dates
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Macquarie Habour
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 38-43
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
🌏 On the 4th of June the Tamar 'came distinctly in view of Cape Sorell' and experienced a treacherous entry into Macquarie Habour and through 'a narrow passage between two rocks, called "The Gates", or from the nature of the settlement, "Hells Gates”; many of the prisoners recklessly asserting that all who entered in hither, were doomed to eternal perdition’.
- Placename
- Cape Sorell, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Location, Dates
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Macquarie Habour
- People
- Convicts
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 44-45
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Location, Dates
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Macquarie Habour
- People
- Convicts
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 46-49
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
🌏 During their stay at Macquarie Harbour, they 'received great kindness and attention from the Commandant' who afforded them 'all the information we desired respecting the discipline of the Settlement', and gave them 'free access to the prisoners, both for ascertaining their feelings, and for the purpose of imparting religious instruction'.
- Placename
- Macquarie Harbour Penal Station, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Location, Dates
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Macquarie Habour
- People
- Convicts
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 56
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
🌏 Backhouse and Walker ‘remained 17 days at the settlement on Sarahs Island, making occasional excursions to the out-posts’. Backhouse noted that ‘the place has since been abandoned, on account of its distance from Hobart Town, and the difficulty of access to it, and the prisoners have been transferred to Port Arthur, on Tasmans Peninsula’, and then devoted a chapter to describing ‘the discipline of the prisoners’, ‘the nearly uninhabited, western side of V. D. Land’, and ‘a specimen of the discipline of one of the older Penal Settlements’.
- Placename
- Macquarie Harbour Penal Station, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Location, Dates
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Macquarie Habour
- People
- Convicts
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 44-45
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
🌏 Backhouse interviewed the steward on board the Tamar who had been 'transported when 14 years old' and found that he 'attributed his early turpitude, to the influence of had company, which led him to use strong drink and disobey his father, and to practice many other evils'. He had been transported for robbery and though 'he had forsaken his evil ways' he still 'felt keenly the bitter consequences of his former vices, for which he was still in bondage'.
- Placename
- Macquarie Harbour Penal Station, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Location, Dates
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Macquarie Habour
- People
- Convicts
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 57
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
🌏 Backhouse reported that parties of Aboriginal people crossed the mouth of Macquarie Harbour 'on floats, in the form of a boat, made of bundles of the paper-like bark of the Swamp Tea-tree, lashed side by side, by means of tough grass'.
- Placename
- Bowra Rock, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Location, Dates
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Macquarie Habour
- People
- Aboriginal people
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 58
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
🌏 Backhouse recorded that the Aboriginal people of the Macquarie Harbour region [Toogee People] were 'said to be shy' and had not 'committed any outrage'. Backhouse reported that 'a girl of about fourteen years of age' had been exchanged for a dog with the people at the Pilot Station, but that 'the girl not liking her situation was taken back, and the dog returned'.
- Placename
- Macquarie Heads Pilot Station, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Location, Dates
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Macquarie Habour
- People
- Aboriginal people
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 58
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
