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- ↑ Papers of George Augustus Robinson, ML A7073, vol. 52, part 4, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
- 1 2 Gale, p. 41.
- ↑ Thomas Brune, Flinders Island Chronicle, 10 September 1836
- ↑ Walter George Arthur, Flinders Island Chronicle, 6 November 1837
- ↑ , additional text.
- ↑ Recorded by N. J. B. Plomley in Weep in Silence, p. 943, but no documentary evidence has been found
- ↑ H. Reynolds, ‘Walter George Arthur: Pioneer Aboriginal activist’, Island, 49, Summer 1991, p.36