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[written by John Allan of Kimbriki, Manning River who settled there in 1851 and
Presented by his son James Charles Allan of Kimbriki, May 1934.- in pencil]
I write this expresly[sic] for my Grand children, or Great Grand children if there are any = I see such a lot of noncence[nonsence] written in the Newspapers, and in books That I think you can form but a very incorect[sic] idea of what the Black Natives were like, and what their customs were when we first came to the Colony and settled down at Kimbriki in 1851 = Now it is 1905 and they are almost all dead in the District- The only one left of the Upper Maning Tribe is "Bungay Billey" he was I suppose about 12 or 13 when we came here and was made a man (I will tell you about this Man Making by and by) soon after we came, I heard the other day that "Little fellow Darby" was alive still, somewhere on the Hastings, he must be an old man, as he was a man before we came = he was a long thin, stupid sort of a Blackfellow.I remember some years ago meeting "Darby" at Tinonee he was very glad to see me, and at once proposed that we should go to the Pub and have "a drink for old friendship sake" he had picked up that I suppose from some White, but he wished me distinctly to understand that he did not want me to pay for it as he had got "plenty money" = He was not much of a worker = like Paddy, Peter, Jimmo and Old Gangat Jackey - Gangat Jackey was a fine old fellow, a great man of my mothers = I met Jackey some days
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