Gazetteer of Historical Australian Places
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Colonial accounts of Indigenous people.
"I went to Booroon. A creek, fed by shady gulleys of the brushes, passes it; low ranges, all covered with thick brush, all of the igneous formation, surround it; many a bunya tree looks down on the capers of the children of the forest and brush, of plain and mountain, of sea coast and of the country inland." - The Letters of F W Ludwig Leichhardt December 1843 Vol. 2, p 795
"There was also a small open plain called "Booroon," (Baroon Pocket Maleny), the name of the bora ceremony in the Mary River dialect, and there the men fought in single combats, and threw the spear and boomerang, and had wrestling and running matches, and there, too, the young men went through their initiation ceremonies..." - Archibald Meston, 'The Bunya Feast Mobilan's Former Glory,'. In the Wild Romantic Days,' The Brisbane Courier (Qld), Saturday 6 October 1923, p 18
"This plain they call Baroon, and it seems the rendezvous for ights between the hostile tribes who came from far and near to enjoy the feast of the bunya..." - John Archer, 1884 in Stan Tutt, Sunshine Coast History Brisbane: Discover 1994, p 146
"The great Bunya Scrub, called Boorum by the natives, from an open space in the middle of it, where they hold their great meetings..." - 'Report 2nd Additional Remarks on the Bunya District and Its Natives,' Simpson Letter-book AD 1842, in G Langevad, Cultural & Historical Records of Queensland, No. 1, July 1979 St Lucia: Anthropology Dept, Uni of Qld, p 2
"Booroom... takes this direction perhaps for 50 miles from north to south, is almost impenetrable except by crawling on the hands and knees. Here the bunya is plentiful and in the month of January, the blacks assemble for hundreds of miles round, and partake of the fruit....." - 'Statement of Bracewell and Davis as to the Supposed Administration of Poison to Some Blacks by White Men,' Simpson Letter-book AD 1842, G Langevad, Cultural & Historical Records of Queensland, No. 1, July 1979 St Lucia: Anthropology Dept, Uni of Qld.
"In the early days, the Blackall Ranges was spoken of as the Bon-yi Mountains and it was there that Duramboi and Bracewell joined the feasts, and there also that father saw it all." - CC Petrie, Tom Petrie's Reminiscences of Early Queensland (Brisbane: Angus & Robinson, 1983), p 12
"The Maroochy District was the home of the great bunya forest." - Audienne Blyth John Low's House and Family, Yandina - Koongalba 1894- 1994 Yandina 1994 , p 38
"This (Nambour/ Maroochy district) is the great bunya country. It extends about 10 miles further south and goes north to about Pinbarren." - William Pettigrew 1865 in Rev. Joseph Taiton,, Marutchi History of the Sunshine Coast Nambour: Taiton, 1976, p 103
"The Bunya Bunya tree (here) is conined to a narrow belt of elevated country on the coast range, averaging from twelve and a half miles wide by twenty ive in length...." - Journal; of a Naturalist Continues, The Argus (Melbourne) Monday 1 July 1850, Page 4 (NB Leichhardt describes the area as "10 miles wide by 50 miles long").
"(There) were large forests of those trees in the early days (around the Blackall Ranges etc.). They lourish still in places, but nothing has been done to protect them..." - J Zillman, In the Land of the Bunya Sydney: W. Dryrock, 1899, p 18
"(Bunya pines) clothed the (Blackall) range.... (with) almost impenetrable scrub.... (and) red cedar of 20 ft girth..." - Dave Hankinson Reminiscences of Maleny Maleny: Maleny & District Centenary Committee 1978, p 3-4