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| Name | Humanitarians in the Antipodes: Voyage to Port Phillip |
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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 a visit to the Port Phillip settlement in November 1837. |
| Type | Journey |
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| Contributor | Heidi Ing |
| Entries | 11 |
| Allow ANPS? | No |
| Added to System | 2024-06-27 19:48:05 |
| Updated in System | 2024-06-27 19:48:24 |
| Subject | colonialism, religious society of friends, quakers, colonial history, james backhouse, george washington walker, transnational human rights activism |
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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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| Date From | 1837-11-03 |
| Date To | 1837-11-18 |
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| Language | English |
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Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Port Phillip
- Objects
- Eudora
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 494-495
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
The Eudora 'passed within a short distance of the Fourneaux Islands' noting that the 'Blossom &and the John Pierie, which sailed from Hobart a few days' the Eudora, 'were just leaving the anchorage under Preservation Island with a press of canvas that rendered them beautiful objects'.
- Placename
- Fourneaux Islands, Tasmania
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Port Phillip
- Objects
- Blossom, John Pirie
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 496
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
The Eudora 'passed to the southward of a high rock called 'The Pyramid', then 'passed in sight of Cape Schanck' before entering Port Phillip.
- Placename
- Pyramid Rock, Victoria
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Port Phillip
- Objects
- Eudora
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, pp. 496-497
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
The Eudora 'made a good passage to the anchorage at Gellibrands Point, at the north-east angle of Port Phillip, passing up the eastern channel', and the ship was boarded by an 'officer, connected with the customs' who took their mail on shore.
- Placename
- Point Gellibrand, Victoria
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Port Phillip
- Objects
- Eudora
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 497
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Port Phillip
- People
- Aboriginal boys; George & Mary Langhorne
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 498
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Port Phillip
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 507
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
From the home of George & Mary Langhorne, Backhouse & Walker were taken 'four miles futher up the river to the dwelling of John & Mary Gardiner', where an Aboriginal man 'from the Merumbidgee River' was described as 'an 'efficient servant' who showed 'more reflection' than some who had 'been brought up, nominally, Christians'.
- Placename
- Gardiners Creek, Melbourne, Victoria
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Port Phillip
- People
- Aboriginal man; John & Mary Gardiner
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 499
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse & Walker reported that the Port Phillip Missionary Station under George & Mary Langhorne had twelve Aboriginal boys 'under tuition', whose parents 'come to see them at pleasure, and when they wish it, take them out to hunt' but were these parents were 'not encouraged to made long visits'. Backhouse noted that at 'another station nearly twenty miles distant, about sixteen native families' had been 'marshalled as an armed police' and were 'clothed suitably for their occupation'.
- Placename
- Royal Botanical Gardens, Melbourne, Victoria
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Port Phillip
- People
- Aboriginal families; George & Mary Langhorne
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 502
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Backhouse & Walker 'called on John Batman, formerly of Buffalo Plains, in Van Diemens Land', who was described as 'much of an invalid' since he moved to Port Phillip. John Batman had 'in his employment', several Aboriginal people 'from the vicinity of Sydney', along with an Aboriginal woman and two Aboriginal boys from Tasmania, who were described as 'useful servants... not disposed to indulge in wandering habits' as they had been 'removed from their native haunts' and were in fear of the Aboriginal people in the surrounding area.
- Placename
- Southern Cross Station, Melbourne, Victoria
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Port Phillip
- People
- Aboriginal people; John Batman
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 504
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Bachhouse & Walker 'dined with Captain Lonsdale, the Police Magistrate and commanding officer of the troops' with whom they discussed 'the importance of inquests being held' when Aboriginal people suffered 'violent or doubtful deaths, and of inquiry being made into cases of reported injury'. They were assured that this 'had in some measure, been attended to, particularly in one case, where several persons had been said to have been killed, but which proved a false report.'
- Placename
- Lonsdale Street, Melbourne, Victoria
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Port Phillip
- People
- Aboriginal people; William Lonsdale
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 505
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
Sources
Before leaving Port Phillip, Backhouse & Walker were presented by John Batman 'with some oval baskets, of neat and strong construction' which had been manufactured by local Aboriginal people.
- Placename
- Batman's Hill on Collins, Melbourne, Victoria
- Type
- Other
Details
Description
Extended Data
- Journey_Title
- Voyage to Port Phillip
- People
- John Batman
- Objects
- Aboriginal baskets
- Source
- Backhouse, Narrative of a Visit, p. 506
- Link
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/10371634
