382:"Thus did this treachery and unprovoked attack meet with its just punishment and at the same time taught us a useful lesson to be more cautious in future. With respect to the size of these natives they are much the same as at Sydney, their understanding better though, for they easily made out our signs when it answered their purposes or inclination. When it did not they could be dull enough. They were all clothed in opossum skins and in each basket a certain quantity of gum was found. Not the least sign of a canoe has been seen. I conclude they live entirely inland, and if we may judge from the number of their fires and other marks this part of the country is not thin of inhabitants. Their spears are of various kinds and all of them more dangerous than any I have yet seen. The workmanship of their dresses, their lines and baskets are far from despicable, their mogo or stone axes are such as common at Sydney."
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the crew, Brabyn, yelled out when they noticed a hidden man about to throw a spear at the crew, and a group of
Aboriginal people with spears hidden behind a large tree. The spear barely missed crewman Moss, and the crew sitting with some of the Aboriginal people were immediately advanced upon by the attacking Aboriginal party as the Aboriginal people they were sitting with 'opened out to the right and left' leaving them open to the attacking party. The officer Bowen shot over their heads but only created a 'small panic', and so the crew kept shooting.
317:. To the north-east by east there is an opening, and from our masthead no land could be seen in it. The northern shores are low with a sandy beach all along. At half-past 3 P.M. we got to anchor in a sandy cove in 7 fathoms water, bottom fine sand—Swan Isles bearing north-east by north distance 5 miles, a bold rocky point which I named Point Paterson east-south-east 1½ miles, a long sandy point named Point Palmer west, 1½ miles, and the nearest point of the shore south-west ½ of a mile distant.
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and carried baskets, spears, and 'stone mogos'. The crew danced with the
Aboriginal people and exchanged goods. Murray offered them further gifts to exchange for their clothes and spears. The Aboriginal however, refused the offer to come aboard the boat and were curious about the crew's guns; they
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There is little record of Murray's later life. He appears as the surveyor of several
English coastal charts between 1804 and 1810, which suggests he succeeded in repairing his reputation with the Admiralty, on behalf of which the maps were made. His date of death is unknown. There is record of a
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Aboriginal people retreated, two were shot by the crew, likely mortally. One was shot twice in the spine, and another was shot once in the side and once through the arm as Bowen and three crewmen grappled him. The grappled man escaped, and the crew fired the remainder of their guns before
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P.M. Working up, the port with a very strong ebb against us, we however gained ground. The southern shore of this noble harbour is bold high land in general and not clothed as all the land at
Western Point is with thick brush but with stout trees of various kinds and in some places falls nothing
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had refused to give Murray a full commission because he had given false details of previous service in
England and had not served the required full six years as had claimed. Reluctantly, King was required to remove Murray from command of the
313:...to the north-east by north, about 5 miles from the south shore lies a cluster of small rocky islands and all round them a shoal of sand; plenty of swans and pelicans were found on them when the boat was down, from which I named them
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On 8 March, he claimed the bay and named it Port King, which
Governor King later renamed Port Phillip. At the time the bay was known as Narrm-narrm to the Boonwurrung.
485:, being lost in November 1814 under the command of a Lieutenant John Murray, though it is not certain if he was the same person because the name is relatively common.
301:. Away to the eastward at the distance of 20 miles the land is mountainous, in particular there is one very high mountain which in the meantime I named
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Seaman and explorer in
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277:Plan of Port Phillip from Murray's survey of 1802.
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230:, Grant resigned his command, and in September
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281:On 4 January 1802, he sighted the entrance to
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415:On 22 July 1802, Murray set off again in the
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