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Wylie (Australian explorer)

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90: 25: 147:, but they returned when they failed to find any food. Several weeks later he proved loyal to Eyre when Joey and Yarry (the other Aboriginal person) murdered Baxter and deserted. Despite the two Aboriginals accosting them and calling for Wylie to join them the following day, Wylie stayed with Eyre for the rest of the journey, impressing the French whalers they met in 165:
After the completion of the journey, Wylie remained at Albany. He spent a brief time as a native policeman, and also benefited from a government pension procured for him by Eyre, who remained in contact with him for some years afterward.
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by sea in May 1840, and would have left with Eyre on his expedition to penetrate to the interior in June of the same year, but Wylie was ill. Later in the year, Eyre was at
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in 1841. He deserted for a brief time with the other older Aboriginal member of the party, Joey, while the party rested at the sandhills of present-day
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in the west, having retreated from the north, and Wylie joined him by way of the ship supplying the expedition, the
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Wylie was subsequently one of the three Aboriginals to accompany Eyre and
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Eyre's expedition was dramatised in the 1962 Australian radio play
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Aboriginal explorer of southwestern Australia in the 1840s
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A dark-skinned man with a bucket and a man in a hat with a gun plod.
Indigenous Australian
King George Sound
Albany
Western Australia
Edward John Eyre
Adelaide
Fowlers Bay
John Baxter
Nullarbor Plain
Eucla
Rossiter Bay
Gundagai
Yarri or Yarree
Edward John Eyre
Colin Thiele
List of Indigenous Australian historical figures
"Wylie (?–?)"
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Australian National University
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978-0-522-84459-7
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