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.
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