Volume 01: Production and resources of the northern and western districts of New South Wales, 1854 [ca. 1850-1857] - Page 188

no harm shall happen to them from their servants, or men who are in their employment. A shrub is also found in this district named the Bunyeh Bunyeh, and bears a fruit, named by the blacks the Tamboy. The natives repair yearly in great numbers to the Bunyeh Bunyeh mountain during the fruit season, & tribes assemble from a great distance in the interior to this public ground, where the disputes & misunderstandings amongst the tribes are at this season settled. It has been affirmed by many, that the tribes who remain long on the grounds during the fruit season, who living entirely on this fruit, have after a time a strong desire for their accustomed animal food, in order to appease this desire, they select & signal out quietly the fattest black fellows for death, and that many are killed by them for this purpose, their only excuse is, that there are neither kangaroo nor oppossum in the neighbourhood. I have heard this so often repeated & this too by creditable persons that I am inclined to believe it, from what I have seen of them, I am aware that they do not carry much of a confectioners taste about them, nor are they particular about what they eat, I have seen them roast and eat large snakes , and other bush vermin equally obnoxious. The Glass house peak mountains stand upon low flat ground, considerably within the Bunyeh range on the Brisbane Side, and have every appearance of being volcanic. Pumice stone, is found at high water mark on the banks of the river leading to those Peaks. The eatable part of the Bunyeh lies between the skin & the core, it is as white as snow, & must be roasted before it is eaten. The weight of each being between twenty five & thirty pounds. The Bunyeh may be termed a superior bread fruit

LAND CARRIAGE TO SHEEP FARMERS AN OBJECT IN OCCUPTING NEW COUNTRY. DISCOVERY OF WESTERN COUNTRY IN 1846.

A very inviting country has lately been discovered by sir Thomas Mitchell for sheep farming as also for the cattle grazier. It is situated immediately to the westward of the great northern Cordillera on the Sources of the Victoria river. This mountain & range country may be suitable for sheep farming & cattle grazing. At present the occupation of this country has to be met with by a serious objection arrising in the shape of land carriage, and I find by calculation that sheep farming, cannot be conducted with profitable returns having more than three hundred miles of land carriage to the sea coast.

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