just for fun

Landmarks?

In Australia, there are hardly any landmarks of Pemulwuy. Personally, I think it was because to the British he was the biggest pest. Pemulwuy didn't want the them to stay, he was seeing things change and things that were alien to him. For all he knew his way was right.

If he had it his way, Australia would not be multi-cultural.

Then again how do we know.

How do we know whose side was right and whose was wrong? There was not treaty to prove it. he is seen as a Warrior, while Bennelong (a aboriginal that Pemulwuy grew up with) went along with the idea.

So as i said before, Australia might not of been multi-cultural, and many peoples lives would be different if of it was the way Pemulwuy would want it to be.

That is exactly why there are hardly any landmarks of him.

Part 3 - Outlawed

Pemuuwuy had broken the law 1000 too many times.

He had become such a pest to the colony that in 1801 Governor King offered a reward 20 gallons of spirits or a free pardon for Pemulwuy capture, it didn't matter to him if Pemulwuy dead or alive.

So in 1802 Pemulwuy was shot DEAD in an ambush. The war between the two worlds was over.

Pemulwuy head was cut off and sent to Sir Joseph Banks in London for research. According to the Australian Dictionary of Biography, King wrote to Joseph Banks in London on June 5 of that year, describing Pemulwuy as a "terrible pest to the colony" but also as a "brave and independent character".

Some believe Pemulwuy's skull was bottled and returned to Australia in 1950, and then lost.

In 1998, a Taree man came forward, claiming to have it, but local elders did not believe him, and the claim was never proven.

Flames

Following many unsuccessful expeditions to capture him, Pemulwuy increased his attacks against the Europeans. He had led a number of raids against the farmlands. Sometimes crops and clothes were stolen. Fields and fields were set on fire. At the time such resources were desperately needed by the colony, some historians have argued the attacks were calculated war strategies devised by Pemulwuy to weaken his enemy.

He was bringing the coloney to it's knees.

Pemulwuy’s actions had the characteristics of guerilla war, which was fighting in smal indepentant bands of soldiers attack in surprise and/or raids.


If one settler broke any Bidigal laws, other settlers could be punished for the violation.

Once punished, the matter was in the past and a state of peace returned. Unfortunately, settlers knowingly or unknowingly continued to break the laws, which forced Pemulwuy to keep dispensing justice. Settlers in turn found themselves being punished, but often not knowing what they were being punished for or even knowing they were be punished.

In 1794, Pemulwuy attacked a group of Convicts and ending up fighting a huge Convict/Bushranger of African descent. This man had the physical strength of an elephant, and managed to crack Pemulwuy's skull and many people in the colony celebrated because they thought he was dead. Although seriously wounded, Pemulwuy recovered to fight on.


In 1797, Pemulwuy led a sustained attack on the Toongabbie outpost, capturing more food and clothing. He then led the Bidjigal to Parramatta. During the battle Pemulwuy was hurt and captured. The Bidjigal suffered great losses and were forced to retreat. Pemulwuy was left lying in a pool of blood and thought to be dead.


Amazingly, he was only severely wounded. In a display of mercy and admiration, the soldiers took him to the hospital at Parramatta. He lapsed in and out of consciousness for many days and his death was thought to be a certainty. But Pemulwuy recovered and a couple of weeks later, he escaped into the darkness - his leg-irons still in place. According to the Bidjijal people, his impossible escape was achieved by turning himself into a bird.

Part 2 - Just the Start of Something Big

By the first winter in Australia, 1788, the Natives in the Sydney area  (Eora - in the native language) started to experience the hardship of the Europeans settlement. The settlers had taken the best of everything; land and resources.

 This was just the start of thing.

At first the clans started to but up a fight, though lost quickly because of the pistols and muskets that the British had. Moving to neighbouring clans was essential, food was what the clans had that the British had taken. So in that they thought it was normal to take food from the farms of the settlement.
But the British saw them as theives, stealers, and criminals.

The Battle of survival had begun.

There was an evil man, closest to Governer Arthur Philip. His name was McIntyre.
He did all that was wrong to the Aborignals. He killed the men with his gun and raped the women, then after killed them. Other men did as well. Massacres started to appear all over the area. Clans were disappearing in vast numbers. They dumped the bodies in Rush-cutters Bay. To this day no aboriginals will visit Rush-cutters' Bay.

Pemulwuy was seeing what was happening to the clans, his vision turned red. They had taken the land, food and now they had disrespected the women.
It wasn't right.

Pemulwuy was going to make it right.

So on November 1790, McIntyre was comfronted with Pemulwuy. He told the aboriginal to put his spear down and he would put his pistol down, Pemulwuy did so but left it to rest it on his foot. McIntyre also did but the quickly grabbed the gun and...

He died.


Pemulwuy had lifted his leg to get the spear to his hand and thrown it at the English men. The soear wasn't a normal one it was a death spear, design to leave tiny rocks inside the wound.

The war had started.

Invaders

 the map of the voyage.

Terra nullus. From Latin translated to no mans' land.
A phrase that Captain James Cook had described Australia to be.
How wrong he was.

He knew and came into contact with the Natives of Australia. Though he still told the government that Australia was no mans' land. There were no natives or people living on the large island.

The gaols (jails) were overflowing with criminals. So one man decided that he would tell the government that he had a solution to this dilemma.

Move some of the criminals to Australia and set up a settlement. The brave man willing to take on the responsibility for getting ships to Australia was Captain Arthur Philip.

So in May 1787 a fleet of 11 ship (later called the First Fleet) set sail with 1,487 people, including 778 convicts (192 women and 586 men).

After almost a year of sailing, one of the ships when on to land first, they had finally set foot on Port Jackson, New South Wales on the 17th of January 1788. The following day the other 10 ships followed.

This land was going to hold a new beginning, and for some others a short end.

Part One - The Crow

The Aboriginals were very spiritual people, and followed their traditions without question. They were taught how to live and respect the land, how to hunt or be a good wife; but more importantly how not to anger the Spirits. They were taught about the ceremonys that had to take place to honor the dead, married, born and the Spirits.

Every ceremony was done with such care and preparation that nothing could turn it. All that was taught when down to the next generation.

 But one man would change the writing of history.

This man was different. Nothing like what others had seen.
He could run faster than the others, he used a spear better that the others in the tribe. The other people in the Aboriginal tribe of the Bidjigal clan of the Eora, thought that he was a doctor for his people; clever man. One with enhanced abilities, some sort of sourcery.

They even thought that he had the ability to turn in to a crow.

This man was a wepaon of nature, even if he was half blind.