iiiv fathei woY -mother wife, nun- 



link- McDtiff, who c.mic I rum fiitthci 

 west iow,,rds the Flinders Kanjies. 

 She (ilrcttdv hail a grown son, Isaac, 

 and helped him to bring up tlVt 

 m i. ici Hi l.ii.k. Ins brother and his 

 sisici Maria. 9&SD eventually married 

 lohn I'caicc . i Neither Jack Long nor 

 his brother were ever married, I 

 laici Isaac MeDutr and his son. 

 I'addv. STCrtl olT tO settle al lake 

 ( oml.ih, and I nek s;iw little more of 

 Ihem, Olhers of his contemporaries 

 in l ho Halranald dislnei weic < u-oi 

 Iv.uihoe. fimmy Moms and Kef 

 Wise i M.uhmadi I, Angus and Dinuy 

 Myers | Dadjdajji > . Peter Bonnev 

 Iparl Mavtimadi) pari Dadidadil and 

 Sid Wttihtt (part Madiiiladi. pari 

 N.irm.m). Cieorge lvauhoc. whose 

 totem was pelican I hao\u,al), and 

 Jimmy Morns lived to be ihe l.isl of 

 the Madimadi "Vlevcr men". Diliny 

 Mvcrs died at Moonaeull.ih m the 

 iiiiick-Liilorties, the last DadidH^i 



spcafcer, (?ui tragically ins language 



died with him, except for some mfor- 

 nvnon civi-n 10 R. H Mathews in 

 the eighty 'n nineties In Mveis 

 nt Cumm-tut'tinga, and tiagmcntarv 

 word u.-a.s published In 1 Curr and 

 Brnugb-Smy ilv Of Peter Bouncy and 

 Sid VVibher we shall hear more in 

 Jack longs story. 



When lack Long was old enough 

 he got work on neighbouring stations 

 as a stockman, and later became a 

 drover He tells us that he held a 

 Dalgety drovei s licence, and em 

 phaiie that in those days, the cighlern- 

 cighties. cightcen-ninelies and mnc- 

 leen hundreds. Aboriginal ,md while 

 drovers were paid and trcaied cqu.dls 

 and that "wc were jusl as tree as 

 other men" Later ihey sufTeied under 

 what he calls 'The Act", which was 

 vi-rv hard on us". (As he had by 

 then moved into South Australia, 

 this is presumably the Act ol 1911 

 wh.eh gave the Chief Protector the 



right lo order an Aboriginal to st,,, 

 on a particular lesctve I 



He remembers the days of tnv 

 Kelly C.ny. and Knew some of 

 Abouginal police [rackets, who vvcic 

 employed to track the Inish-rangch, 

 particularly he niciilions old A/n,^,. 

 wi^ln', Huwcvei, Ik- may he ethoir^ 

 the opinion ol Aborigines .md l C s V 

 pnvileged while people ol die im. 

 when he says, 



"li was a very wrong all.iu. n w,,, 

 Ihe law -people was dniiie the iluir*. 

 aye, l he law Was the foniulatior 

 ot all Ihose businesses, lliey didn 

 Lr»UI people pioperly al all, m< I 

 proper adv ice, no proper stak-mem I 

 and all lhal. I know a lol ot ease- 

 and Ihose people, SQItyfi of ihcm I 

 called I'.uiuv. and didn ! do n" 

 Ihe story of lack Jong's diuvinj 

 davv lies in elosely with the limit- 

 ing ol Ihi lailwavs m noi Hi • wester; 

 Victoria. He and bis mates would 

 drove mobs of cattle, horses ami 

 >hccp Mom the stations on IJlfi Mur- 

 r.iv lo Ihe neaicst rail heads, their 

 lounteys gelling slimier as the line 

 eucmlcd ( Ihe line from Keiaiic- w 

 Swan Hill was being built Iron, 

 iss: lo 1590, the \V.,rr.,cknahc;.i- 

 Beulah hue was extended to Hope 

 KUU) hy I W "■ I Sometimes the. 

 done a mob into the Western Div 

 liict to Dunkeld. Cisterion. Ilanv 1 

 ton and them places". Ihe drovm 

 then returning to Swan Hill hv ir.nn 

 changing at Bendigo Once when Hie, 

 were on hobday, lick long am! 

 George iv mime wfift S5d vvehhe 



packed rheu horses and lode on . 

 visil lo (*iunmoiagiiiiga Sellleineitt. 



lack lung temembets that mam 

 ot ihe siaiiiMi.s tyye tdkttl over In 1^ 

 lug companies — he mentions "Auv 

 Mali hi land Morlgaee .aid f-in.au'. 

 Corporation and the lumlon Han» 

 luhich mav have been ihe i onden 

 Fmjnte Corporation) 1 1. is h,,r- 

 pened lo Kulkvne. Ya.iga and Tun 



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