Wariwiya One-Eye

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
War-re-weer Wo-gul Mi
English JS Main: 
Wariwiya One-Eye
English: 
A young woman (nearly related to Bennillong), who had resided from her infancy in the settlement, was most inhumanly murdered; and a native of the Botany Bay district had driven a spear through the body of the lad Nanbarrey. The name of the good- tempered girl (for such she was) was War-re-weer; but, to distinguish her from others of the same name, an addition was given to her in the settlement from a personal defect that she had. Being blind of one eye, she was called War-re-weer Wo-gul Mi, the latter words signifying one eye. The circumstance of this girlÕs being killed, and Nanbarrey wounded, occasioned much violence on the part of their friends and relations, of which number were Cole-be and Bennillong; the former of whom, falling in with the man who had wounded the boy, revenged his treatment of him so fully that he died of his wounds the following morning.
Category: 
name of person
Sub-category: 
Ñfemale
Source: 
Collins 2
Notebook: 
2
Page: 
89
Line: 
39
Respelt: 
Warawiya Wågal Mi
Part of speech: 
phrase 3
Date: 
1802
Meaning Clue: 
"War-re-weer Wo-gul Mi" Warawiya Wagal Mi = "A young woman (nearly related to Bennillong), who had resided from her infancy in the settlement, was most inhumanly murdered; and a native of the Botany Bay district had driven a spear through the body of the lad Nanbarrey. The name of the good- tempered girl (for such she was) was War-re-weer; but, to distinguish her from others of the same name, an addition was given to her in the settlement from a personal defect that she had. Being blind of one eye, she was called War-re-weer Wo-gul Mi, the latter words signifying one eye. The circumstance of this girl’s being killed, and Nanbarrey wounded, occasioned much violence on the part of their friends and relations, of which number were Cole-be and Bennillong; the former of whom, falling in with the man who had wounded the boy, revenged his treatment of him so fully that he died of his wounds the following morning." Wariwiya One-Eye : Collins 2 [2:89:39] [BB]
Source Details: 
Collins, David 1975 [1802], An Account of the English Colony In New South Wales with Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, Etc, of the Native Inhabitants of that Country, Volume II. ---------------- An Account of the English Colony In New South Wales with Remarks on the Dispositions, Customs, Manners, Etc, of the Native Inhabitants of that Country, Volume II by David Collins, Late Judge-Advocate and Secretary of the Colony (originally Published 1802). This Australian edition published 1975] by A. H. & A. W. REED PTY LTD, , Sydney, Wellington, London. Edited by Brian H. Fletcher MA PhD, Senior Lecturer In History, University of Sydney; Published in Association with the Royal Australian Historical Society