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13 interesting individual, by a recital of John Helder Wedge, Esq., M.L.C., of Tasmania, and one of the most active of Batman’s Port Phillip Association. The document was furnished to the Home Government hy Colonel Arthur in 1836, and then forwarded for insertion in the Royal Geographical Society’s Journal. “A short time,” writes Mr. Wedge, “previous to the abandon ment of the settlement hy Colonel Collins, he absconded with two other men, name d Marmon and Pye; the latter left his companions before they reached the river at the northern extrem ity of the Port, being exhausted with the want of food and other privations. Marmon remained with Buckley till they had wandered nearly round the Port, hut left him somewhere on Indented Head, with the intention of returning to the establishment; hut neither he nor Pye was never heard of afterwards. Buckley thus alone continued his wanderings along the beach, and completed the circuit of the Port; he at last became weary of such a very precarious existence, and determined upon returning. Soon after he had reached on his return back the neighbourhood of Indented Head, he fell in with the family of natives with whom he continued to live till the 12th of July, 1835, the day on which he joined the party left by Mr. Batman. “ His memory fails him as to dates, but he supposes his falling in with the natives to have occurred about twelve months after his leaving the establishment. The natives received him with great kindness ; he soon attached himself to the chief named Nullaboin, and accompanied him in all his wanderings. From the time of his being abandoned by his companions till his final return to the establishment, a period of thirty-three years, he had not seen a white man. For the first few years his mind and time were fully occupied in guarding against the treachery of strange Indians, and in procuring food; he, however, soon acquired a perfect knowledge of the language, adopted the native habits, and became quite as one of the community. The natives gave him a wife, but discovering that she had a preference for another, he relinquished her ; though the woman and her paramour forfeited their lives, having violated the custom which prevails among them ; for, when a woman is promised as a wife, which
