"The blacks appear to have been busied for some days past in firing the bush, which at nearly all points around Brisbane has during the past week been blazing with much vigour. If this burning off be followed by the rains so much wanted, we shall doubtlessly have the pleasure of seeing the now scorched and blackened ground soon covered with a rich carpet of verdure... These fires of the blacks, according to their own account, are for the purpose of summoning the tribes to the feast of the Bunya Bunya." - Domestic Intelligence , The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane), Monday 10 February 1851, p 2
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Kerkhove, Ray The Great Bunya Gathering, Early Accounts Enoggera, 2012 https://www.academia.edu/8244371/The_Great_Bunya_Gathering_Early_Accounts
