Methodist missionary Walter Lawry meets the chief of “a tribe of blacks”

Near Portland Head (Wisemans Ferry), Methodist missionary Walter Lawry meets the chief of “a tribe of blacks”, but the woman take their children and run off. Lawry writes: “I inquired why the childen were carried off; they replied that many of them had been taken away by men in black clothes, and put to school at Parramatta, and they feared I was come on that errand” (Colwell, Illustrated History of Methodism, 1904: 170-71). W468.