Aboard the cutter “America”
\nFrom Sydney to Brisbane
\nWhich hit the Madjn Reef near Horn
\nAnd was never seen again
\nThe crew it seems all drowned
\nIncluding the captain he
\nCaptain Thompson died in front of his
\nWife apparently<\/p>\n
She was Barbara Crawford Thompson
\nThe year was 1844
\nAnd she washed up on the beach
\nOf Horn an Island And whatsmore
\nThe Kaurareg were headhunters
\nAnd rescued her it seems
\nImagining she was a returned spirit
\nOf “Markai” it seems their dreams<\/p>\n
Of the headman of the indigenous band
\nHad lost his daughter to
\nThe ocean and when Barbara’s lifeless body
\nWashed up the view
\nWas they must try and save her
\nAnd they did so and then she
\nLived with them for five long years
\nAs a Kaurareg she was free<\/p>\n
She wore no clothes and lived five years
\nOr so as one of them
\nLearned their culture lived a life
\nTheir language and what did stem
\nWas the Knowledge of the people of their customs
\nOf their lives
\nUntil the HMS rattlesnake
\nProved that she survives<\/p>\n
They picked her up and took her home
\nAnd in 1912 she died
\nShe had learned the ways of the Kaurereg
\nIt had been a fateful ride
\nIn the wrong place at the right time
\nSaved from death was she
\nBut she had lived five years as a native girl
\nin some harmony<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Aboard the cutter “America” From Sydney to Brisbane Which hit the Madjn Reef near Horn And was never seen again The crew it seems all drowned Including the captain he Captain Thompson died in front of his Wife apparently She … Continue reading