James Davis (Duramboi)

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Probably the first white men who ever passed through this strait were Andrew Petrie's whaleboat
party in search of "Duramboi,"

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Duramboi received £20 to go to Sydney and report on them. They were actually two aboriginal albinos whose mother, "War-ann-oong," had never even seen a white man. They were never returned to the island, a gross breach of faith with the parents, and both died in New South Wales.

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...where they collected another escaped convict "DURUMBOI" (James Davis) and after discovering the fine timber of the Kauri Pine at Mary River Heads, Petrie returned to Fraser Island and camped near Snout Point.

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