Aborigines of Van Diemen's Land, 1830-1840 - Page 106
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West direction, where the various tribes who of the Eastward and Interior used to meet in the N in the month of November every year, there to hold a grand corrobory, and to exhibiting feats and to engageing in certain sports highly interesti in which they take took a lively faith interest. Mr Jorgensen in 1829 thinking to fall in with them on the plains, himself headed by one of his parties and set out and ordered two other of his roving bands to take a circuitous route, so as to meet nearly at the same time at Lake Fergus on the Southern extremes of the plains.
This year however the Blacks did not assemble at the usual place for fear of being surprised. On Mr Jorgensens' return, passing down from Lake Echo to the Shannon point, and in one of his journals I find the following description which I quote in his own words. "In pressing slowly down on the Western side of the Shannon Mungo our black guide arrested