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    <name><![CDATA[Humanitarians in the Antipodes: Voyage to Port Phillip]]></name>
    <description><![CDATA[<p>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.&nbsp;</p>]]></description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Backhouse & Walker 'engaged a passage to King Georges Sound, by way of Port Phillip and South Australia, on board the barque Eudora, along with ten cabin passengers who were 'going to Port Phillip with a view to improving their circumstances' and 'several mechanics and their families' in steerage 'who were hoping to obtain better wages at Port Phillip, than they could get in Van Diemens Land'. The Eudora sailed from the mouth of the Derwent on 3 November 1837.]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[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'.]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[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.]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Backhouse & Walker followed a 'track towards Melbourne' where they 'were conveyed across the Yarra-yarra, by a voluntary ferryman whose practice was to make no charge, but to accept what his passengers pleased, finding, that in this way he got the best paid'. On landing from the ferry boat, Backhouse & Walker 'were recognized by George Langhorne', whom they had known in Sydney. George Langhorne had been appointed to 'form a Missionary Station at Port Phillip placed under the care of a committee of the Episcopal Church Missionary Society in Sydney'. Backhouse & Walker accepted his invitation to sail to the mission with Langhorne and four Aboriginal boys.]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[The Eudora 'cleared Gellibrands Point' and dropped anchor 'in the evening, in a bay a little to the northward of Arthurs Seat'. Backhouse & Walker were 'the only passengers in the cabin', but there were thirteen people in steerage who 'not liking the arrangements for wages at Port Phillip' had 'determined on proceeding to South Australia'. Also on board were thirty dogs which the captain had brought from Hobart and hoped to 'sell to advantage in India'.]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[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'.]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[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'.]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[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.]]></name>
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