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-26.799
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Colonial accounts of Indigenous people.

"We tried hard to induce Diamond to accompany us to Bribie's Island; but, although he first promised to do so, he afterwards changed his
mind, and said he was going to the Bunya Bunya (feast). ...."
"1st February, started early .... At Kalounda (Caloundra) we found a camp recently deserted, as the fires were still burning. The blacks we
took with us said the occupants of the camps had left for the Bunya that morning, whither they followed that afternoon."
- R B Sheridan, Mr Sheridan's Account of the Search for the Missing Men, The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane), Wednesday 9 February 1859, p. 2
- (Pie Creek Gympie)

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td007b
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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