George Augustus Robinson - 'Report of a Journey of two thousand two hundred miles to the Tribes of the Coast and Eastern Interior during the year 1844', ca.1844; with a printed British Parliamentary Paper announcing the appointment of Robinson as Chief Protector of the Aborigines at Port Phillip, 1838

MLMSS 7335

fonds

1838, ca. 1844

440109

Microfilm : CY 4387, frames 1-33 (MLMSS 7335)

1 folder - 0.02 Meters
Textual Records
Textual Records - (printed)

George Augustus Robinson was Chief Protector of Aborigines in Van Diemen's Land between 1829 and 1838. In 1839 he moved to Port Phillip to head the Aboriginal Protectorate there and over the next eleven years undertook a number of lenghty excursions throughout Victoria.

1. Robinson's report of his expedition to the Aboriginal tribes of south-eastern Australia, accompanied by George Henry Haydon and ten others. Leaving Melbourne in May, they travelled to Wilson's Promontory, then to present-day Lakes Entrance, north to Lake Omeo and across the Snowy Mountains to Twofold Bay, south to Cape Howe, north over the mountains again to Yass, then back to Melbourne via Gundagai, Albury and Seymour. The journey took six months and Robinson's account includes descriptions of the various tribes, and of stations, townships and terrain encountered. Among the white settlers he met were Charles Tyers and Hamilton Hume.

2. Despatch from Lord Genelg, Secretary of State for the Colonies, to Sir George Gipps, announcing the appointment of a Chief Protector of Aborigines (Robinson) and four assistants to be based at Port Phillip and proposing the removal of the Van Diemen's Land Aborigines from Flinders Island to Port Phillip. Parliamentary Paper No. 72, 31 January 1838.

Read the transcription here: archival-classic.sl.nsw.gov.au/_transcript/2017/D04795/a2078.pdf

Robinson's report comprises 39 pages, unbound in an art morocco folder and slipcase with bookplates of George Mackaness and John M. Chapman.
A large collection of George Augustus Robinson papers, 1818-1924, is held at A 7022 - A 7092 (71 volumes). All volumes have been copied onto preservation microfilm