Blood Hole Massacre
In the Blood Hole massacre , which occurred in Australia on Middle Creek , about twelve kilometers from the Glengower stockbreeding station, between Clunes near Ballarat and Newstead in Victoria , in late 1839 or early 1840, an unknown number of Aborigines were from the tribe of Dja Dja Wurrung murdered.
During the construction of the Glengower Station, the employees of the owner of the breeding station, Captain Dugald McLachlan , gave the Aborigines rations of flour and sugar and they keep them busy every now and then. When a mixture of gypsum plaster was distributed to the Aborigines instead of flour, a dispute arose with the kitchen staff, as a result of which the cook was spared by the Aborigines and the camp was ransacked (they took a quarter of a sheep).
McLachlan and his employees then followed the Aborigines to the waterhole on Middle Creek west of Glengower Station. The Aborigines attempted to hide in the waterhole by diving, but as soon as one of them appeared to breathe, he was shot.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Aldo Massola, p88, Journey to Aboriginal Victoria , Rigby, 1969 as quoted by Ian D. Clark, pp97, Scars on the Landscape. A Register of Massacre sites in Western Victoria 1803-1859 , Aboriginal Studies Press, 1995 ISBN 0855752815
- ↑ Geoffrey Blainey, pp30, A History of Victoria , Cambridge University Press, 2006 ISBN 0521869773
- ^ Edgar Morrison, Frontier life in the Loddon Protectorate: episodes from early days, 1837-1842 , Daylesford [Victoria], The Advocate, 1967 ?. without ISBN