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Bennelong and Gogy : Strategic brokers in colonial New South Wales
Konishi, Shino
Konishi, Shino
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Abstract
On the road between Parramatta and Prospect a meeting took place on Monday last for the purpose of inflicting punishment on a native well known at the above settlements by the name of Goguey … His crime was defensible upon custom immemorial, but so likewise was his extraordinary mode of arraignment an event consequent upon the former. Perceiving an unusual degree of rancour in the menaces of his judges, he endeavoured for a short time to avoid them by retiring; but being closely pursued he formed his resolution, and made a stand, with two adherents near him. The spears of his adversaries were barbed and rough-glazed, and three at once advancing upon him until within ten or twelve feet, he caught the first thrown on his target, but the second, discharged by Bennelong, entered above the hip, and passed through the side, so as to be afterwards extracted; but the third thrown by Nanbery as he wheeled to defend himself from the former, entered the back below the loins; when perceiving that his seconds had left him, he in a transport of rage and anguish turned his resentment upon those from whom he expected assistance but had deceived him, and then exhausted, fell.
Keywords
Aboriginal History, Arts, Humanities, Biography, Autobiography, History, Social Sciences, Indigenous Studies
Date
2016
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Book chapter
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Book
Brokers and Boundaries: Colonial Exploration in Indigenous Territory
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Page Range
15-37
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Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences
Faculty of Education and Arts
Faculty of Education and Arts
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This edition © 2016 ANU Press and Aboriginal History Inc.