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A venerable old man was here with a beard as white as snow. I asked him if they had been at the Corrobberes at Wollongong to which they replied No. After passing the swamp we came to an inn at Jamberoo in front of which sat two well dressed Englishwomen and stood 6 or 7 dirty and naked black gins with their children. A mutual stare was all our salutation; but I think they were quizzing Mr Burnett’s beard (which he does not shave in the back) and my dirty legs, for they laughed heartily as we passed.
[Aboriginal people, words, and place names mentioned by Clarke in the Diary include: Old Frying Pan Captain Biggs Timbery Gin Picaninny Corrobery Boomerang Dildils Waddy O ’Roa Marcilla Barenjewry W alkabout Diddel Nunimura Boonama Borwarri Cove Boonaira Segingouera Khanternigee Pungoilee W angorang Kembla Burelli Gennigalla
alias Brown Bean the Aboriginal guide an old Aboriginal Man Aboriginal Woman Aboriginal Child Aboriginal song and dance festival hunting implement a lobster or large prawn implement a chant at the corrobery mountain on the way to Kangaroo Valley and Coolangatta mountain on the way to Kangaroo Valley and Coolangatta -
Pigeon Flouse mountain mountains a locality a bay near Kiama a locality a waterfall near Macquarie Pass Kiama (blowhole) Point Fleadland opposite Blowhole Point Fleadland north of Kiama mountain mountain a locality
Clarke was persistent in recording Aboriginal place names during his many years of geological excursions throughout New South Wales. In a later letter to his m other in England, dated 3 August 1840, he stated: I have now a very decent number of royal acquaintances, but my greatest affection is for my friend and namesake, Bran Bran, alias Mr. Frying Pan, in the lllawarracountry.... For a watercolour of Frying Pan refer under Skinner Prout 1841.
Americans in lllawarra December 1839 - January 1840: Members of the Wilkes United States Exploring Expedition visit lllawarra, including James Dwight Dana, geologist; Alfred T.Agate, artist with the expedition; and H.Hale, naturalist. They are accompanied during their visit by Rev. W.B.CIarke (refer to Clarke’s Diary above).