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Bennelong's letter was composed by a copyist in 1796 (writer obscure) because of the reality, of not having the capacity to read or write. He was 'living admirably at the senator's place'. There had been a little building made for Bennelong by governor Philips. Had lost his second spouse "Gooroobaroobooloo" to "Carroway" in the wake of being speared in the back for her. ‘Native’ traditions of the 1796 period. Never to leave Australia again. Put in three years in Britain, was extremely debilitated there, was nursed back to wellbeing by Mrs. Philips. Expecting he was still companions with Mr. and Mrs. Philips. Giving Lord Sidney his respects. Required garments, two sets of leggings, two sets of shoes and a few handkerchiefs. Bennelong expected …show more content…

Baron Franz Xaver van Zach placed the letter in the ‘German Geography Astronomy journal in 1801. The original copy of Bennelong’s letter is situated at the AIATSIS collection . Penny van Toorns (2006) book ‘Writing Never Arrives Naked’ and Keith Vincent Smith (2012) article on "Bennelong Letter". The Australian, have been invaluable in researching Bennelong’s letter. Woolarawarre Bennelong, born Wangal on the south shore of the Parramatta River in about 1764, He died at approximately at forty-nine years of age, on January 3, 1813, and was buried in the orchard of brewer James Squire, in Wallumedegal territory on the north side of the Parramatta River at Kissing Point (now Putney). Woollarawarre Bennelong had a letter penned to Governor Arthur Phillips on the 29th of August 1976. Bennelong's letter went from him to Governor John Hunter, to Joseph Banks, to Johan Friedrich Blumenbach, to Baron Franz Xaver van Zach, A German Hungarian astronomer who in 1801, place the letter into one of the German Geography Astronomy …show more content…

Toorn began writing about Australian early Aboriginal cultures in the early 1990s. Toorn stated that, ‘When it came to recording Aboriginal expressions in English, be that as it may, they passed into bold ventriloquism' also ‘There is no such thing as ‘the Aboriginal voice’ Whereas, Smith saying ‘Bennelong’s letter expresses authentic Aboriginal voice’. Some other examples of contestation between historians are the word ‘muzzy’ in Bennelong’s letter. Smith, states that the National Australian library ‘muzzy doings’ meant ‘bad’, and it should of have been ‘murry, meaning big or very’. Oxford university dictionary, states that in the Queensland newspaper in 1891, ‘murry’ was the word for Aboriginal person, today it is spelt ‘murri’ Then you have researchers like Smith, who expresses that Bennelong's kinship with Governor Philips was impossible, because of Governor Philips orders, they were for him to gather an Aboriginal man, therefore find out about Aboriginal lifestyles and culture. Whereas Toorn, states they were friends. Another example of Toorn and Smith disagreements are, ‘Bennelong’s words express a very personal and authentic Aboriginal voice’ . Whereas Toorn states, ‘it is not regarded be me as a reprint of a pristine Aboriginal

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