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Jackie Huggins Collection Gaiarbau English
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Story of Double Island Point

Four typescript drafts and a photocopy of one of the drafts, undated. It is the story of how Double Island Point was created.

The first draft: 2 leaves, printed on continuous computer paper, with the title 'Children! for your safety : Listen to your parents!'. It begins 'This is a story told to us by Uncle Willie, or Geerbaugh, as he was named by his people ... it is called - The Story of Double Island Point'.

The second draft: 2 leaves, printed on continuous computer paper, with the title 'Double Island Point'. It begins: 'Uncle Willie MacKenzie's story at the camp for the Murri and white kids'.

The third draft: 3 leaves, two copies of page 1, printed on continuous computer paper, untitled. It begins 'Story told by Uncle Willie MacKenzie - Geerbaugh - to the children at the Murri and White Kids' camp'. There is a photocopy of the two page draft attached.

The fourth draft is typed on the typed on the back of two A3 pieces of paper that have research material that appears to have been used in the writing of the book on cane growers by Muriel Langford. It is 3 pages in length. It has many handwritten emendations. It begins 'Before white people came to this beautiful country the Aboriginal people roamed over all of it.'

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