Dr White's household: copy-edit
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| Nanbaree's language skills and position within the colony also became useful in warning his people about military operations that were planned against them. On one occasion he informed Ballooderry that soldiers were coming to shoot him and on another he told Colebe that a [[punitive expedition]] had been ordered by the governor against the warrior [[Pemulwuy]].<ref name="smith" /> | Nanbaree's language skills and position within the colony also became useful in warning his people about military operations that were planned against them. On one occasion he informed Ballooderry that soldiers were coming to shoot him and on another he told Colebe that a [[punitive expedition]] had been ordered by the governor against the warrior [[Pemulwuy]].<ref name="smith" /> |
| ===Dr White's household=== | ===White's household=== |
| Nanbaree continued to live with Dr White, whose household was expanding. White took on a convict mistress named Rachel Turner, who had arrived with the [[Second Fleet (Australia)|Second Fleet]] in 1790. The couple had a baby in 1793. White was also assigned a convict artist named [[Thomas Watling]] who became friends with Nanbaree and drew portraits of him and other Dharug people which became part of the Watling Collection. In 1794, White returned to England, leaving Nanbaree in Sydney without a patron.<ref name="isobel" /> | Nanbaree continued to live with White, whose household was expanding. White took on a convict mistress named Rachel Turner, who had arrived with the [[Second Fleet (Australia)|Second Fleet]] in 1790. The couple had a baby in 1793. White was also assigned a convict artist named [[Thomas Watling]], who became friends with Nanbaree and drew portraits of him and other Dharug people; the portraits later became part of the Watling Collection. In 1794, White returned to England, leaving Nanbaree in Sydney without a patron.<ref name="isobel" /> |
| ==Adulthood== | ==Adulthood== |
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