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Author's note: Mary Watson, suspecting attack from mainland Aborigines who had landed on Lizard Island in 1881, took to the sea, along with her four month old baby, Ferrier, and a wounded Chinese workman. They floated in the cut-down water tank her absent husband had used for boiling sea-slugs at his beche-de-mere station. After several days, with no luck finding water after beaching at two islands, all three died of thirst.
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An epic poem in four numbered parts
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- 2005 winner Banjo Paterson Writing Awards — Poetry
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