What is the mysterious white lady who killed the Australian Aborigines (4 photos)

This story is already 200 years old. During this time, many innocent people died, but no one was interested.





Australia has Lake Gippsland. Its neighborhood in the 1840s years explored by a team of pioneers led by Angus Macmillan. Then they met the natives, among whom was a white woman. This they were agitated and they rushed after them to the nearest village, in it found bloody European clothes and the corpse of a boy who sewn into the skin of a kangaroo.

The dashing team decided that there was a murder here and began interrogate the locals. They didn’t understand anything, they just shook in fear heads and asked them not to touch. At least that's what he said Macmillan, but did not provide any evidence.



Angus Macmillan

Details became clear a little later: nearby crashed the ship "Britain", it went from England to Sydney. There were only two on board. women - the captain's wife and a young girl, she sailed to her fiancé along named Fraser. When they found out about this, they organized an expedition. Local beaten and demanded to hand over the white girl. No result.



One of the last purebred aborigines

But the rumors about the captive did not subside and in 1846-1847 they collected another group and went in search of a mysterious European lady. "Hunters" scoured the neighborhood and nailed handkerchiefs with the inscription: “White woman! A squad of armed men is looking for you. Please, run to us as soon as you see or hear!”

And again no one was found. Then they began to exterminate the locals - mercilessly slaughtered people who did not even know what was coming from them want.

Well, the myth about the girl only grew. Supposedly found black a boy who said that he once played with children from a white woman. It was said that Mr. Fraser also organized an expedition and searching for his lost bride. Everyone was seized by some kind of madness.



Aboriginal folk dance

Finally, the next “seekers” approached the matter thoroughly: found a guide among the locals and went around all the villages in the vicinity of the lake Gippsland. In one of them there was a leader named Bungalen, he allegedly "split" and admitted that he married a white girl. And agreed to her give away.

The joy of the search engines subsided somewhat when the natives brought them a female corpse. They found her after the shipwreck and the girl was dying. After her death, her corpse was kept as a relic. Don't forget that they were still natives.

But the story did not end - local newspapers began to inflate the myth that the natives simply killed the crew members of the sunken ship. And two women were taken prisoner and forced to marry. Then one died, and the second remained with the leader.



Aborigines, but with an admixture of European blood

And this fairy tale was procrastinated for decades. On the one hand, it seems to hell. On the other hand, this is very reminiscent of an excuse for the unpunished extermination of the natives. They were not lucky, they occupied the territory that wanted to assign the Europeans. And the massacre began, it went to several stages and ended with almost total extermination or exile local. A small part was assimilated. Just like in America, only here the tribes were more defenseless than the Indians. So they were dealt with hurry up.

Under each "operation" they came up with a new pretext. But the first was the myth of the tender white girl being held captive.