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after my Mothers death = he came up and put his hand
on the pumel[pommel] of the saddle and looked up at me "Old
Missus dead John" I said "yes Jackey" he went and sat
down on a log and had a good cry = and I must say
I went away doing the same - he had four sons George,
Tomey Steel = he died soon after we came here and was
burried[sic] not far from Gore's = about where Fred Richardson
house was = Jimmo = George and "Cowruck" (he never had
a white name) poor little beggar = he just wasted
away, and died at the camp in the Bush oposite[sic]
where Wm Polley lives = I cannot forget seeing Old Jackey
after his boy "Cowruck" died. I went to the camp and
found Jackey minding the corps[corpse], for some reason = what
I don't know, they could not bury it untill[sic] Old Goahana
came and Jackey told me he could not eat any of
the "Blackfellow's patter". would I send him up a
bit of bread, he could eat that, he had not eaten
a bite for more than a day & had tightened his belt
of Possum string untill[sic] he looked almost cut in two
Another of my Mothers men was "Ogle eyed Jimmy"
Jimmy had a most awful squint, that accounts for his
name, Jimmy went mad at the last and "ran amauck[amuck]
he was throwing spears at the men & women at the camp
when Bungay Billey put a spear through him and
killed him, it was not far from Tinonee = When
Father & Mother lived over at Mount George in Whip Kelleys
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