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Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Wil-ee-ma-rin
English: 
On that day, the chaplain and lieutenant Dawes, having Abaroo with them in a boat, learned from two Indians that Wil-ee-ma-rin was the name of the person who had wounded the governor.
Category: 
name of person
Source: 
Tench
Page: 
181
Line: 
24
Respelt: 
wilimarin
Part of speech: 
noun
Date: 
1793
Source Details: 
Captain Watkin Tench: A Narrative of the expedition to Botany Bay (1789) and A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson 1788-1791 (1793): Republished at Sydney’s First Four Years (1961), Library of Australian History

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