Eric Willmot
Author of Pemulwuy, the rainbow warrior
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Following an important Background, the story of Pemulwuy is framed within a structure of three parts of truth which arise from a story told by an old man (Mundi) to children about the spirits entering Yunada...
The subtlety of framing the story as he does escapes me but I'm convinced that is my failing rather than any shortcoming by Eric Willmot. Essentially we read about a series of skirmishes culminating in the defeat and despair that reverberates today.
Willmot proposes that the main reason so little is known (even now) about how the great warrior Pemulwuy fought against the British for more than a decade and went close to driving them out of Tuhbowgule (Eora name for Sydney Harbour) is that the Rum Corps made no mention in reports back to England of him or the war they were fighting for fear that reinforcements would be sent and their corrupt practices disturbed.
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