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Colonial accounts of Indigenous people.

"In late January the 'traffic' was always heavy... Grandad would tell of the people on their northerly trek. He spoke of the long, thin, dusty,
scrawny people appearing to be in no hurry. Sometimes a group would camp for a night on the northern ridge (of Meringandan) and hunt wallabies - but the lure of the Bunyas... would draw them on..."
- Ben Gilbert, Who Bide in Ancient Valleys, p 36-7

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td0091
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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