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Governor to inform Your Honor,
that you must exercise your
own discretion with respect to the
detention of Bungelene, and his
Wives.

I have the honor to be,
Sir,
Your Honor’s
most obedient Servant.
for the Colonial Secretary
W. Elyard Junr

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(No 58)
Chief Protectors Office
Melbourne 19th. July
1847.

Sir,
I beg to report that in
pursuance of Your Honors minute
of the 12th. Instant, I proceeded
to Nerre Nerre Warren and
communicating (through the Boy
Interpreter named in Margin)
with Bungelene the Gipps Land
Aboriginal in custody at that
Station. I remained to the 16th
Instant but no additional
information beyond what the
Government are in possession of
has been elicited. Their replies
reluctantly given were vague
and unsatisfactory. The White

His Honor
C. J. La Trobe Esq
Superintendant

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No 47/1354
26th July 1847
The Chf Prot.
States that
he has returned from commtg
with Bungeleene at Nerre Nerre
Warren

[Annotation: Margin]

Williambuling
alias
Jaka-war-ren
[ditto]
Jacky-war-ren

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Woman they said was with
Bungelenes Brothers, and on
being asked where, believed
they had gone to Buchan and
Two Fold Bay.

I beg to add however that
my own opinion with reference
to the White Woman as previously
expressed to Your Honor, remains
unaltered. Bungelenes Wife
and four children were with
him, the former is a Native
of Western Port and was taken
when a Girl from her People
by the Gipps Land Aborigines
with whom she has remained
ever since She is about twenty
years of age and ignorant