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No 63 Autumn 1999

One of the many handkerchiefs that were nailed to the tree trunks in Gippsland as part of the efforts made in 1846-47 to recover the white woman, supposed to have been the sole survivor of a wreck off the Gippsland coast and thought to have been detained in that district by a tribe of Aborigines. The notice was printed in Gaelic as well as English because ‘it was frequently found that with a certain class Gaelic was better understood than English’. Argus 30 May 1914. [printed handkerchief]

One of the many handkerchiefs that were nailed to the tree trunks in Gippsland as part of the efforts made in 1846–47 to recover the white woman, supposed to have been the sole survivor of a wreck off the Gippsland coast and thought to have been detained in that district by a tribe of Aborigines. The notice was printed in Gaelic as well as English because ‘it was frequently found that with a certain class Gaelic was better understood than English’. Argus 30 May 1914.