Wandai Gumbal

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Earliest/Latest known date

1851 - 1861

Duration of camp/NMP presence

8 years

Other names

  • Tchanning Creek

  • Condamine

 
“Although a stranger to police camps, I always understood that order, regularity, and some degree of neatness characterised the movements of a military force, and therefore my surprise was great indeed when, on presenting myself at the barracks, I learned that the commander was in bed, and saw the troopers lolling on the ground in confusion and disorder, whilst here and there were interspersed gins and black-fellows, not in any way connected with the police force. Altogether the camp appeared to me to be similar, in nearly every particular, to a camp of wild natives, as seen in a scrub.”
— Andrew Scott, Sydney Morning Herald 8 January 1858, p3
 

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