The Victorian naturalist . settlers, and the wholeof the tribal land was thus taken up:such famous stations as Eilyer; Cara-mut; Hopkins Hill, later divided intoChatsworth and Berrambool; andGreen Hills Creek, later divided intoNareeb-Nareeb and Burie-Burie, thuscoming into existence. The Gnareeb-Gnareeb, in commonwith other Mara tribes, resisted thecoming of the settlers in the usualmanner: by spearing sheep, robbinghuts, and assaulting lonely white men retaliated with organ-ized hunts, when the natives wereindiscriminately shot, such as at theBattle of Lubra Creek, a slaughterw
The Victorian naturalist . settlers, and the wholeof the tribal land was thus taken up:such famous stations as Eilyer; Cara-mut; Hopkins Hill, later divided intoChatsworth and Berrambool; andGreen Hills Creek, later divided intoNareeb-Nareeb and Burie-Burie, thuscoming into existence. The Gnareeb-Gnareeb, in commonwith other Mara tribes, resisted thecoming of the settlers in the usualmanner: by spearing sheep, robbinghuts, and assaulting lonely white men retaliated with organ-ized hunts, when the natives wereindiscriminately shot, such as at theBattle of Lubra Creek, a slaughterwhich is said to have occurred a fewhundred yards up the creek from themain Penshurst-Caramut Road. Thenatives were surrounded in the densescrub, and shot down; but upon ex-amination it was seen that most ofthe men had apparently escaped, andthose killed were the lubras, hencethe name of the creek. However, the plight of these people November, 1968 317 Headstone on graveof Barrinbittarney atNarreeb-NareebHomestead came under the Governments notice:in 1840 John Cox, who had taken upMt. Rouse, was summarily evicted andthe mount and its vicinity proclaimeda Native Protectorate under a The Protectorate was not a signalsuccess, and ended in 1842, since itwas found impossible to contain theremnants of the tribes within its con-fines; but the aborigines were made torealize that it was better to accept theinevitable, and submit to, and workfor, the settlers. Other white men, such as CharlesGray, at about this time befriendedthe aborigines, and he employed anumber of them on his Nareeb-Nareeb station. In his reminiscencesas published under the title, WesternVictoria in the Forties, he stated that: One of the most helpful andfaithful of the natives was onecalled Timour, who was head of thetribe. When he died at an advancedage he was buried in the stationgraveyard at Nareeb-Nareeb. Theceremony was carried out by mem-bers of his tribe, I providing a largegum tree from
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