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off and Boney dodging round trying to get at her =
Boney lived to be an old man and only died about two
years ago = a sulkey beast to the last = he was a good worker
and did a lot of work for us, We gave them very little money.
Boney felled about 30 acres for Joseph Andrews for 2/6 and rations
and a pair of new moleskin trowsers[trousers], Rations, Tobacco, & a shilling
or two was all they got = Old Gohanha was the King or head
Man of the Tribe, he had another name but it was never
used, Sipio, he had a brass plate some one hd [sic]given him
with Gohana engraved on it "Gohana King of Gangat"
he was proud of it, & used to put it on on all state ocasions[occasions]
I think it was only because he was one of the last of the old
Blacks that made him a sort of head man, Johny Martin
the Dr had far more influence = the Dr's always were thought
most of, Then Paddy, was a realy[sic] good working man and
mostly [indecipherable] man, His native name was "Dielbah", how he got
that name was that he got three months in Maitland Jail = so
was called Jailbah - which soon got twisted into Dielbah, I
often think it was a shame puting him in jail = someone
had got Paddy to go down to the Hunter with him driving
horses and coaxed him to stop there with him, that went
on all right for sometime = but Paddy after a bit got
homesick, and one day when he was hiding out in the
outside paddocks the fit came on him so strong that he had
to go, so started off, and made his way up to Larrays Flat
(now Krombrack) put the saddle up in a tree and hobbled
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