Mungalla Plantation
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Cartographic Name
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Mungalla Plantation
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Identifier
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SITE-MUN
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category
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Plantation
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temporalCoverage
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c.1860-1904
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sourceOrganization
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Queensland Polynesian Labourers Act 1868
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text
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"[Interviewer (Jean Devanny): He was thirteen years old when the recruiting boats came ashore to one of the islands of the New Hebrides. When he held out a coconut to a man who leaned from the boat the man grabbed his other arm and jerked him onto the boat… taken on board. His people ran up and down the beach crying out. [..] Interviewee (Anonyomus): I cried for two days for my people and my island. I wouldn’t eat. I was sick with the bad smell of everything on the boat." Research Materials. Devanny, Jean. JD/MSS/91. Mossman Material for Novel on Kanakas. Manuscript, 10 pages. JCU Special Collections. Copyright held by the Devanny family.
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"The earliest reliable account of the rainforest Aborigines is that of Lumholtz who, in 1882, lived for a period of fourteen months with Aborigines north and west of Ingham and encountered the rainforest Aborigines when he travelled into the ranges. He noted that there were marked differences between them and the Aborigines he was living with " Frontier Violence History. Loos, Noel. Invasion and Resistance. ANU Press, 1982, p.90.