Part II: Black Lines
Based on conversations with Ruth Amos, Patsy Cameron, Peter Chapman, John Clark, Clem, Bernice Condie, John Cusick, Tom and Cynthia Dunbabin, Ilewka, Greg Lehman, James and Lyndsay Luddington, Mary Mactier, Furley Mansell, George Masterman, David Montgomery, Margaret-Ann Oldmeadow, Henry Reynolds, Frances Rhodes, Anne Rood, Andrew Sant, Toly Sawenko, Julie Spotswood, Edith Stanfield, Emily Stoddart, Daniel Thomas, Liz Turner, Edna Webb, Dusty Willcox.
Unpublished source material: Swansea History Room.
Books and articles: ‘Some recollections of the Tasman Memorial Controversy, 1922-24’, by John Reynolds, T.H.R.A., vol. 13, 1966; ‘Tasman and a Dutch Discovery’, by Peter Chapman, Australian Natural History, vol. 20, 2; The Voyages of Abel Janszoon Tasman, by Andrew Sharp, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1968; ‘Imagining Australia: a case of fact being as strange as fiction’, by Murray Bail, T.L.S, 1978; Some account of the wars, extirpation, habits & c., of the native tribes of Tasmania, by James Erskine Calder, Henn & Co, 1875; Tasmanian Aborigines and their descendants, Bill Mollison and Coral Everitt, Mollison, 1978; Pride against prejudice, by Ida West, Canberra, 1984; Friendly Mission: The Tasmanian Journals and Papers of George Augustus Robinson 1829-1834, ed. N.J.B. Plomley, T.H.R.A., 1966; Weep in silence: a history of the Flinders Island Aboriginal settlement; with the Flinders Island journal of George Augustus Robinson, 1835-1839, ed. N.J.B. Plomley, Blubber Head, 1987; The Last of the Tasmanians; or the Black War of Van Diemen’s Land, by James Bonwick, London, 1870; The Aborigines of Tasmania, by H. Ling Roth, Halifax, 1899; After the Dreaming, by W.E.H. Stanner, 1968 Boyer Lectures, Australian Broadcasting Commission, Sydney, 1969; Community of Thieves, by Cassandra Pybus, Minerva, Melbourne, 1992; Black Robinson: Protector of Aborigines, by Vivian Rae-Ellis, Melbourne, 1988; Trucanini: Queen or Traitor, by Vivian Rae-Ellis, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 1981; The Aboriginal Tasmanians, by Lyndall Ryan, Queensland, 1996; Fate of a Free People, by Henry Reynolds, Penguin, 1995; The Fabrication of Aboriginal History, Volume I, Van Diemen’s Land 1803-1847, by Keith Windschuttle, Macleay, 2003; Whitewash: On Keith Windschuttle’s Fabrication of Aboriginal History, ed. Robert Manne, Black Inc., 2003; ‘Better to be Mistaken than to Deceive’: the Fabrication of Aboriginal History and the Van Diemonian Record, by James Boyce in Island 96; The Freycinet Line, 1831: Tasmanian History and the Freycinet Peninsula, by Emily Stoddart, Freycinet Experience Pty Ltd, 2003; The Aboriginal people of Tasmania, by Julia Clark, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, 1983; The East Coasters: the early pioneering history of the east coast of Tasmania, by Lois Nyman, Regal Publications, 1990; Pioneers of the East Coast from 1642, by Karl von Steiglitz, Launceston, 1955; The Memoirs of Field-Marshal Montgomery, Collins, 1958; H.H. Montgomery – the Mutton Bird Bishop, by Geoffrey Stephens, Hobart, 1985; Living to Tell the Tale, Gabriel García Márquez, Cape, 2003.
Part III: Elysium
Based on conversations with Madge Brett, Jill Cainey, Paul Edwards, Bernard Eisele, Mick Evans, Greg Lehman, Wendy Newton, Vivien Van Dam, Laurie Porter, Bob and Molly Shepheard, Petre Tamlyn, Imogen Vignoles, Randall Wheaton. Some of the names have been changed.
Unpublished source material: Imogen Vignoles, Ivy.
Newspapers and journals: The Advocate, Launceston Advertiser, The Northern Standard, North-West Post, Tasmanian Tramp.
Books and articles: Round the World Cruise Holiday, by S.P.B. Mais and Gillian Mais, Alvin Redman, 1965; We Wander in the West, by S.P.B. Mais, Ward Lock, 1950; Lorna’s Author: Letters by R.D. Blackmore to his sister, by David Blackmore, Blackmore Books, 2003; R.D. Blackmore, author of Lorna Doone, by Waldo Hilary Dunn, Robert Hale, 1956; Bushlife in Tasmania, by James Fenton, Regal, Launceston, 1970; My Home in Tasmania, by Louisa Meredith, Sullivan’s Cove, 1979; Louisa Anne Meredith: a tigress in exile, by Vivian Rae-Ellis, Blubber Head, 1979; Ulverstone, An Outline of its history, by Bruce Ellis, Latrobe, 1988; Pioneers of Tasmania’s West Coast, by C.J. Binks, Blubber Head, 1988; King of the Wilderness: the life of Deny King, by Christobel Mattingley, Text, 2001; Trampled Wilderness: the history of southwest Tasmania, by Ralph Gowlland, C.L. Richmond, 1977; ‘The Castra Scheme’ by Geoffrey Stilwell, in Tasmanian Insights, essays in honour of Geoffrey Thomas Stilwell, State Library of Tasmania, 1992; Letter to the Officers of H.M. Indian Services, Civil and Military, by Lt Col. Andrew Crawford, Hobart, 1865; Under the Southern Cross, by H. Cornish, London, 1880; ‘A Home in the Colonies’, by S. Bennett, T.H.R.A. vol. 27, no. 4, 1980; ‘From Raj to Rustic’, by P. Mercer, T.H.R.A. vol. 25, no. 3, 1978; The Unexpected, by Frank Penn-Smith, Cape, 1933; A Divided Society: Tasmania during World War I, by Marilyn Lake, Melbourne, 1975; Chrissie Venn: ‘Suffer Little Children’, by L. & N. Smith, Ulverstone Press, 1999; On the Black Hill, by Bruce Chatwin, Cape, 1981.
Part IV: Oyster Bay
Daughter of Tasmania
Based on conversations with Gloria Andrews, Ian Jack, Lynn Johnson, Doone Kennedy, Edyth Langham, Peter Lawrence, Bill Penfold, Cassandra Pybus, John Ward, Bev Warren.
Unpublished source material: St Helen’s History Room.
Newspaper: Launceston Weekly Courier.
Books and articles: Princess Merle: The Romantic Life of Merle Oberon, by Charles Higham and Roy Mosely, Putnam, 1983; Queenie, by Michael Korda, Warner, 1986; Till Apples Grow on an Orange Tree, by Cassandra Pybus, Queensland, 1998; ‘Errol Flynn’, by Bob Casey in 40 degrees south, 27; Errol Flynn, The Tasmanian Story, by Don Norman, Hobart, 1981.
TV: ‘The Trouble with Merle’, ABC documentary, August 27, 2002, written and directed by Maree Delofski, producer David Noakes.
Tigers and Devils
Based on conversations with Bill Bleathman, Buck and Joan Emberg, Geoff King, Marlene Levings, Menna Jones, Nick Mooney, David Owen, Laurelle Shakespeare.
Books and articles: Touch the morning: Tasmanian Native legends, by Jackson Cotton, Hobart, OBM Pty Ltd, 1979; Tasmanian Tiger: A lesson to be learned, by Eric Guiler and Philippe Godard, Abrolhos Publishing, Perth, 1998; Thylacine: the tragic tale of the Tasmanian tiger, by David Owen, Allen & Unwin, 2003; ‘Tasmanian Tiger Sighting’, by Nick Mooney, Australian Natural History, 1984; ‘Dining with the Devil’, by M.E. Jones, Australian Natural History, 1994; Valley of the Giants, a guide to Tasmania’s Styx River Forests, by Bob Brown, Brown, 2001; Groundswell: the Rise of the Greens, by Amanda Lohrey, Quarterly Essay, issue 8, 2002.
Oyster Bay
Based on conversations with Helen and Malcolm Boyd, Bill Matthewson, Michael Stutchbury, Bruce Sullivan, Rueben Wells.
Unpublished source material: Balliol College; Swansea History Room.
Books and articles: A General Collection of the best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in all parts of the world 1808-1814, by John Pinkerton, London, 1817; Letters from the Southern Hemisphere, by F.J. Cockburn, London, 1856; My memoirs laced with East Coast tales of Van Diemen’s Land, by Edward C. Shaw, Shaw, 2000; Journal of Charles O’Hara Booth, ed. Dora Heard, T.H.R.A., 1981; the story of the Japanese submarine is printed in Battle Surface: Japan’s Submarine War Against Australia, 1942-44, by David Jenkins, Random House, 1992.
Doubles
Based on conversations with Max Chatwin, Michael Mackenzie, Nevin Shakespeare.
Books: Chatwin: 6 generations in Tasmania, researched and compiled by Daisy Chatwin, Barbara Pendrey and Vince Scarcella, privately printed 2001; Memories, by Julian Huxley, George Allen & Unwin, 1970; We Europeans, by Julian Huxley, Cape, 1935; Tasmania, by Peter Collenette, D. & L. Book distributors, 1990.
List of Illustrations
Map of Tasmania (Professor Pat Quilty, University of Tasmania)
Anthony Fenn Kemp on enamel (Courtesy of Professor Murray Kemp)
Alexander Pearce: Sketch by Thomas Bock (State Library New South Wales)
Ross Bridge (Courtesy of Matthew Kneale)
Tom Arnold: Daguerreotype made shortly before his departure to New Zealand in 1847 (Dove Cottage, The Wordsworth Trust)
Julia Sorell: A watercolou
r by Thomas Wainewright, c.1847 (Collection: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery)
Mount Vernon (Courtesy of Barrie Paterson)
Necklace (author’s photograph of Gillian’s necklace)
Tongerlongetter, chief of the Oyster Bay Tribe in 1831: Reproduction of pencil on paper sketch by Thomas Bock c.1832 (Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery. Launceston)
Mr Robinson on his conciliation mission (Etching from Mr Duterreau’s great picture)
The Jetty at Wybalenna (Courtesy of Matthew Kneale)
Colonel Andrew Crawford taken by J.W. Beattie (Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts)
Cape Grim Baseline Air Pollution Station (Davis Whillas, CSIRO Atmospheric Research, Cape Grim)
Merle Oberon on her visit to Tasmania in 1978 (Newspix. Tony Palmer historical)
Tasmanian tiger: Thylacine. A juvenile male at Hobart Zoo, taken by Ben Sheppard in 1928. The animal died the day after it was photographed (Collection: Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery)
Alfred Chatwin and Elizabeth Chatwin (Daisy Chatwin’s Collection, Sprent, Tasmania)
Index
3rd Bombay European Regiment
3rd Infantry
9th Australia Division
21st Dragoons
21st Regiment
46th Regiment
99th Regiment
102nd Regiment of Foot (later New South Wales Corps)
Abergavenny
Aboriginal Committee
Aboriginal Land Council
Aboriginal place names
Aborigines
Black Line
extinction
genocide
grants
handclasp of
Kemp and
land and
Maria Island, on
population
revisionist version of history
Tasmania, in
William Lyne and
Windschuttle’s ‘Telling Histories’ lecture
women
Abyssinia, Tasmania
Active (brig)
Africa
Agnarsdottir, Anna
Ainsworth, Elizabeth
Albion (ship)
Albuera Street Cemetery, Hobart
Aldgate, London (No 87)
Alice Springs, Australia
ammonium sulphates
Amos, Adam
Amundsen, Roald
Anangarra waterhole, Australia
Anchor tin mine, Lottah
Andes
Angus (a birder)
Anstey, Thomas
Antarctic explorers
Antarctica
Antient Masonry see also freemasonry
‘Apple Isle’
Appledore, Devon
Appledore, Tasmania
Aracataca, Colombia
Argentina
Aristotle
Arnold, Dr Thomas
Arnold, Julia (née Sorell; Kemp’s granddaughter)
Arnold’s Catholicism
portrait of
Arnold, Mary see Ward, Mary Augusta
Arnold, Matthew
Tom Brown’s Schooldays
Arnold, Thomas
Catholicism
death
New Zealand, in
Resolution
Arnott, Col John
Arthur, Lieutenant Governor George
Aborigines and
Arthur River
asthma
Atkins, Judge
Atlas (supply ship)
Auckland, New Zealand
Auden, W.H.
Austin, Alexander
Australia
Baudin discovers new zoological species
Commonwealth of (1900)
first complete map
first literature printed in
Australia Day
Austrialia del Espiritu Santo
Avoca
Babel Island
Bacon, Jim
Bagdad
Bagdad News
Baghdad, Iraq
Bahama (a hulk)
Baker, Corporal Arthur
Baker, Ethel (née Hordern; Hordern’s daughter)
Ballarat
Balliol College, Oxford
bandicoots
Bank of Van Diemen’s Land
Banks, Sir Joseph
Barnstaple, Devon
Barossa Valley
Barrie, Sir J.M.
Barrow, Margaret Louisa (Kemp’s daughter)
Barrow, Samuel (Kemp’s son-in-law)
Bartley, Major-General Sir George
Bass, George
Bass Strait
Batavia
Bathurst
Bathurst, Lord
Bathurst Harbour
Battery Point
Baudin, Nicolas
BBC
Beagle survey ship
Beaumaris Zoo, Hobart
Beauty Point
beech, southern
Bellerive, Hobart
Bengal rum
Benjafield, Harry
Benjamin (a Tasmanian tiger)
Bennelong (sick Aborigine on the Reliance)
Bent’s News
Beothuks of Newfoundland
Bering Straits
Bernacchi, Diego
Berry, Roland
Bertie (Hordern’s sister)
Bertrams, The, Hobart
Betjeman, Sir John
bettong
Bidencope, Con
Big Dog Island
Big River tribe
Binney, Sir Hugh and Lady
Binzemann, Bruce
birding see mutton-birds
Bismarck (later Collinsvale)
‘black armband’ school
Black Line
‘Black Mary’ (Howe’s companion)
Black Panther of Emmaville
black swans
Black War
blackberries
Blackmore, Richard
Lorna Doone
Blainey, Geoffrey
blasphemy
Bligh, Governor William
Blinking Billy Point, Tasmania
Bliss House, Lindfield
Blum, Maître
boat-building industry
Bodenham, Thomas
Boer War
Bombay (Mumbai)
Bond, Ernie
Bonwick, James
Boode House, Devon
Boode House, near North Motton
Boomer Creek, Tasmania
boomerangs
Boon, David
Bougainville, Louis Antoine de
Boullanger, Charles-Pierre
Bounty (a ship)
Boyce, James
Boyd, James
Boyes, George
brachiopods
Braddon, Sir Edward
Brady, Matthew
Braunton, Devon
Brazil
Bredell, Maurice
Breton, Midshipman François Desiré
Bridport, Devon
Bridport, Tasmania
Briem, Dr Helgi
Briggs, ‘Dolly’ Dalrymple
Brighton, Tasmania
Bristol Guardians of the Poor
Britain
France, relationship with
Britannia
British Zionist League
Broad Arrow Café, Port Arthur (Carnarvon)