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Yoo-long Erah-ba-diang 8, c1798

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State Library of New South Wales
[a1341021 / Q79/60 v. 1, opp.p. 581]
(From 'An account of the English colony in New South Wales...' by David Collins, 1798)

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An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales

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Aboriginal

Colebee c1760-1806

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Cadigal man captured with Bennelong, who became familiar with the Europeans but disappeared after 1806.

Nanbarry

Cadigal man who survived smallpox to become a child-servant in the early colony and later sailed on the Investigator with Matthew Flinders.

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Yoo-long Erah-ba-diahng 1795

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An Aboriginal rite of passage in February 1795 at Woccanmagully (Farm Cove), involving Colebee and Nanbarry, in which boys were made men after ordeals that concluded when their upper right front tooth was knocked out.

An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales

Book written by David Collins describing the early years of the colony and its native inhabitants.

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