Mr Fernyhough has faithfully portrayed [Piper the Aboriginal who accompanied Major Mitchell.]

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Title

Mr Fernyhough has faithfully portrayed [Piper the Aboriginal who accompanied Major Mitchell.]

Author

Sydney Gazette

Source

Sydney Gazette (Sydney)

Details

20 December 1836, p.2, col.6.

Publication date

20 December 1836

Type

Publication Review

Language

English

Country of context

Australia

Full text

Mr. Fernyhough has faithfully pourtrayed [sic] on stoned, an excellent likeness of Piper, the well known native who accompanied Major Mitchell in his expedition into the interior. Piper is to be seen strutting about Sydney with his red coat and cocked hat with long white feathers’ he is a fine man for a native, and has rendered himself notorious from having shot dead the chief, who with his tribe followed the Major’s party for a very considerable distance – watching, it is supposed, a proper opportunity for plunder and murder.

[Sydney Gazette, 20 December 1836, p.2, col.6.]