The Lost White Tribes of Australia Part 2: Individuals of an Alien White Race

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The Lost White Tribes of Australia Part Two: ‘Individuals of an Alien White Race.’ Fourth Edition A4 full colour

New evidence was uncovered regarding the survivors of both the Vergulde Draeck and the Zuytdorp. Artifacts were found including two with dates: 1807 and 1829. These were discovered in the Kennedy Ranges in WA and were the result of the descendants of the Zuytdorp survivors some of whom travelled inland. The first English explorer to arrive in the Kennedy Ranges was Francis Gregory in 1858. The first English settlers arrived in Western Australia in 1829.

The author investigates the Deadwater Wreck in the Wonnerup Estuary south of Perth and evidence of European occupation.

In 1838, Lieutenant George Grey led the first land-based expedition into northern Australia where he discovered the northern Kimberley cave paintings. Some of the figures in the rock art resembled Europeans. He came across natives whom he described as ‘Individuals of an Alien White Race.’

‘There have been repeated rumours, too, which have never been cleared up, of a settlement near the north-western shores of Australia by a Dutch shipwrecked crew, whose descendants, the offspring of native wives, are said to speak, to the present day, the language of both parents, and to have a considerable smattering of the knowledge and arts of civilised life.’

The Sydney Morning Herald, NSW 11 May 1857

The mysterious tribes of the north and northwest (WA, NT and Qld) are investigated including a tribe of yellow-coloured, bald Aboriginals with conical heads; Aboriginal pygmies, albino Aboriginals; ‘a tribe of natives… nearly white in complexion… and clothed in skins;’ tribes with blue-eyes, and blond-hair in both the North-Western Australia, QLD and SA.

Other possible Dutch shipwrecks are scrutinised including a 17th century shipwreck in Esperance and an unidentified wreck found by Eyre. Not far from this location: ‘Between Eucla and Eyre, a group of six-fingered and six-toed natives existed… boys of a curious dirty-white complexion, European features and whitish hair.’