Item #86629 Songs of the South. Second Series. The Wild White Man and Other Poems. William BUCKLEY, John Bernard O'HARA.
Songs of the South. Second Series. The Wild White Man and Other Poems
Songs of the South. Second Series. The Wild White Man and Other Poems

Songs of the South. Second Series. The Wild White Man and Other Poems

London, Ward, Lock & Bowden, Limited, 1895.

Octavo, 199 pages (the last three being 'Press Notices of the First Series', continued from page [2]).

Olive-green cloth unevenly sunned, lightly flecked and a little bumped; top edge gilt, others uncut; endpapers lightly foxed; overall, an excellent copy.

Not least, 'The Wild White Man. An Australian Tale' ('founded on historical facts', pages 101-196). William Buckley (1780-1856) was transported for life in 1802; the following year he absconded from a camp at Port Phillip. He was 'befriended by Aboriginals of the Watourong tribe, who believed the big white stranger to be a reincarnation of their dead tribal chief. He learnt their language and their customs, and was given a wife, by whom, he said, he had a daughter'. He lived with them for thirty-two years, finally giving himself up in July 1835 ('Australian Dictionary of Biography').

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