Bennelong Point - Circular Quay East
In 1788 Bennelong Point Was A Tiny Island Seperated From The Mainland By A Narrow Tidal Channel - Since Filled In By Drifting Sands. Known By The Aborogines As Juba Ghalee.
It Was Called Bennelong By Poineers Due To The Go Between Bennelong Untol Dec 1792 When Governor Phillip Returned To England With Bennelong.
It Then Went Under Another Native Name Of Yemmer - Awan - Yea.
After His Companion Died In England, Bennelong Returned To Sydney
It Over His Countrymen.
The Sydney Gazette Of 9th January 1813 Reporting His Death On The 3rd Said
"Of This Veteran Champion Of The Native Tribe Little Favourable Can Be Said. His Voyage To, And Benevolant Treatment In Great Britain Produced No Change Whatever In His Manners & Inclinations, which Were Naturally Barbarous & Ferocious"
The Outcrop which Now Bears The Name. Bennelong Point Was Called Cattle Point By the Earlly Settlers, Because The First Livestock. Were Landed There.
Captain Watkin Tench's Journal Records That The Live Animals Taken On Board were "Two Bulls, Three Cows, Three Horses, Forty four sheep, & 32 Hogs, & A Very Lrge Quantity Of Poultry Of Every Kind"
In His Journal Lietenant Philip King Recorded "The Landing Of Stock on The 28th January, On The Eastern Point On The Cove. We Landed Only 4 Mares & 2 Stallions, 4 Cows, 1 Bull & 1 Bull Calf, Ewes, Poultry & 3 Goats With Hogs."
Governor Phillip Wrote "February Was Ushered In By A Violent Storm; Lightning Struck & Shivered A Tree Under Which A Shed Had Been Erected For Some Sheep, & Five Of These Arrivals Were Destroyed."
A Stock Muster On 1 May 1788 Revealed the only 2 Bulls & 5 cows were left. On 5 June Sergeant James Scott noted that for cows & 1 pool with 1 Bull calf was drove Australia way from the governors farm. They remained straight until 21 December 1795, when scores of wild cattle were found in the cow pastures, a grassy paradise in the valley of the Nepean River 40 miles south west of Sydney
