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-27.428

Longitude

152.978

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Colonial accounts of Indigenous people.

"(Petrie in Brisbane joined)...with a party of a hundred, counting the women and the children... They camped the first night at Bu-yu (Enoggera)... (Next) night... happened to be at the Pine (River)....The third night they camped at Caboolture... and next day started for the
Glasshouse Mountains... On the fourth day, at about 4 o'clock (pm), the party arrived near Mooloolah..."
- CC Petrie, Tom Petrie's Reminiscences

"The bunya bunya fruit is ripe. They are eating it. Let us - tomorrow -
go for bunya!"
"Where is my basket? Here it lies. I must take it to the Bunya."
"There's a (bunya) fruit here. Will you throw it down?"
- Conversations recorded amongst people camped at Enoggera in1850s,
about leaving for the Bunyas in William Ridley, Notebook (mss John Oxley
Library), 1855

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