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Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
BangŠi
English: 
Baneelon took an odd method of revenging the death of his countryman: at the head of several of his tribe, he robbed one of the private boats of fish, threatening the people, who were unarmed, that in case they resisted, he would spear them. On being taxed by the governor with this outrage, he at first stoutly denied it: but on being confronted with the people who were in the boat, he changed his language, and, without deigning even to palliate his offence, burst into fury, and demanded who had killed BangŠi.
Category: 
name of person
Source: 
Tench
Page: 
216
Line: 
34
Respelt: 
Bangayi
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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