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45-434: Strandloper may refer to: Strandloper (novel) , novel by English writer Alan Garner Strandloper (people) , ethnic group of south-western Africa Harry die strandloper (fl. c.1625-1665), Khoikhoi tribal leader Sandpiper (Dutch: Strandlopers en snippen), a large family of shorebirds or waders Straandlooper , a Northern Irish animation studio Topics referred to by

90-439: A baptism of folklore that demanded work from the reader, but found that worth the effort. In 1803, a farmer's son from Cheshire , William Buckley , participates in folk rituals which coexist with the local Christian church. An epileptic , William is prone to visions which contain patterns. He is being taught to read by the son of a local land-owner, Edward Stanley , who sees him as both friend and test subject. Both men have

135-709: A 'manageable' area. In February 1830, Batman wrote to the British Colonial Secretary, John Burnett, about his difficulty in 'coming up' with [i.e., capturing] the Aboriginal people. In the same letter, he asked in explaining his difficulty in capturing Aboriginal people in the bush, "...if he could follow known [Aboriginal] offenders once they had made it 'to their own ground'. The 19th-century artist, John Glover , captioned one of his Tasmanian paintings Batman's Lookout, Benn Lomond (c. 1840) "...on account of Mr Batman frequenting this spot to entrap

180-410: A century over this moment in the birth of Melbourne. Batman writes in his diary on Monday, 8 June 1835 that "... the boat went up the river I have spoken of, which comes from the east, and I am glad to state, about six miles up found the river all good water and very deep. This will be the place for a village. The natives on shore." The previous day Batman and his party had returned from their meeting with

225-479: A close relationship with William’s fiancée, Esther. Edward’s father, Sir John, sees working-class literacy and community rituals as threats, and gets William convicted on a charge of trespass. William is transported to Australia . On arrival in Australia, William escapes, surviving in the outback , and collapses on the grave of an Aboriginal shaman . He is discovered by some Beingalite people, who regard him as

270-558: A house at the base of the hill in April 1836. His son, John, was born in November 1837. However, Batman's health quickly declined after 1835 as syphilis had disfigured and crippled him, leaving him in constant pain. By the end of 1837 he was unable to walk and was forced to give up squatting and move into trading and investment, but he greatly overstretched his finances and was left vulnerable by his reliance on delegating work to others. As

315-657: A kind that we [Westerners] need". The novelist Brian Attebery , writing in The New York Review of Science Fiction , admires Garner's handling of the story. In his University of Oxford PhD thesis, the scholar of Welsh mythology Felix Taylor writes that "Garner’s depiction of aboriginal cultures, first in Australia in Strandloper and then back in Cheshire in Boneland , develops ideas of rootedness in

360-491: A letter of 7 September 1829, that he kept the child because he wanted "...to rear it...". Luggenemenener died on 21 March 1837 as an inmate at the Flinders Island settlement. Later, Rolepana (aged 8 years), traveled with him as part of the founding party of Melbourne in 1835. After Batman's death in 1839, Rolepana would have been 12 years old. Boyce notes that Rolepana was employed by colonist George Ware at 12 pounds

405-486: A local landscape which also connects him to the spirit of his ancestors." Taylor notes that Garner had studied Welsh mythology in relation to his native Cheshire, and had then expanded his "idiosyncratic" understanding of this "into a wider conception of a universal mythic consciousness". In Taylor's view, Garner portrayed in the novel "what he saw as the psychologically restorative powers of mythological narratives and imagery." The Tolkien scholar Jason Fisher , reviewing

450-567: A more complex picture of Batman's motives and actions on behalf of the government in these so-called "roving parties". For example, in September 1829 Batman (aged 28), with the assistance of several "Sydney blacks" he brought to Tasmania, led an attack on an Aboriginal family group together numbering 60 to 70 men, women and children in the Ben Lomond district of north-east Tasmania. Waiting until 11pm that night before attacking, he "...ordered

495-467: A spirit dance. The literary critic Jenny Turner, writing in The Guardian , notes that Strandloper has been described as Garner's "first ever adult book". She praises the novel as "constructed like a Buntingesque prose poem of continuity and rupture, environment and myth", commenting that the dialogue "is stunningly harsh and bare, forcing the reader to work and think and learn". She criticizes

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540-526: A treaty (now known as Batman's Treaty but also known as the Dutigulla Treaty, Dutigulla Deed, Melbourne Treaty or Melbourne Deed), with Kulin peoples to rent their land on an annual basis for 40 blankets, 30 axes, 100 knives, 50 scissors, 30 mirrors, 200 handkerchiefs, 100 pounds of flour and 6 shirts. It is unlikely that Kulin people would have understood this as a transfer of land or agreed to it if they had, but, as Percival Serle wrote, "No doubt

585-623: A year with board on Batman's death, "...but what became of him after this is also unknown." However, Haebich records Rolepana as having died in Melbourne in 1842 (he would have been about 15 years). She also says that: Batman rose to prominence during the time of the Black War of 1830 (aged 29), during which he participated in the Black Line —the formation of a "human chain" across the island to drive Aboriginal people from their lands into

630-454: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Strandloper (novel) Strandloper is a novel by English writer Alan Garner , published in 1996. It is loosely based on the story of a Cheshire labourer, William Buckley . The historical figures of Edward Stanley and John Batman also appear as characters. An English epileptic is transported to Australia, where he escapes and becomes

675-589: Is widely considered to have been sympathetic towards Aboriginal people. Batman's legacy has been challenged in the 21st century, and most criticism has focused on his killings of Indigenous people in Tasmania. In 2016, Darebin Council voted unanimously to change the name of Batman Park in Northcote . It is now called Gumbri Park, after Gumbri (Jessie Hunter), great-niece of Wurundjeri leader William Barak and

720-668: The Black War . He later co-founded the Port Phillip Association and led an expedition which explored the Port Phillip area on the Australian mainland with the goal of establishing a new settlement. In 1835, Batman negotiated a treaty with Aboriginal people in Port Phillip by offering them tools, blankets and food in exchange for thousands of hectares of land. However, the treaty was declared void by

765-719: The Western Port area, but the New South Wales colonial authorities rejected this. So, in 1835, as a leading member of the Port Phillip Association he sailed for the mainland in the schooner Rebecca and explored much of Port Phillip . When he found the current site of central Melbourne, he noted in his diary of 8 June 1835, "This will be the place for a village." and declared the land "Batmania". Batman's Treaty negotiations with Kulin peoples (Aboriginal peoples of now central Victoria) took place in June 1835 on

810-590: The "Aboriginal episodes" as "the usual anthropological nonsense, dotted with that giveaway primitive-peoples linguistic marker, the biblical cadence." In short, she finds the work "disappointingly precious" and "a bit embarrassing to read", even if "patches of the writing are lovely". The author and folklorist Neil Philip, writing in Signal , states that Garner "clearly regards" the real-life William Buckley as his "spiritual ancestor". He notes that Aboriginal churinga are totemic artefacts that "record sacred details of

855-576: The Kulin Elders along the hills bordering the northern banks of the Yarra. It remains quite unclear whether the party saw the 'place for a village' by the 'Falls'—a long-used homesite for the local peoples, and similarly unclear whether Batman was in the boat that explored the Yarra on the 8th. But the site has already been noted for its virtues by numerous Britons including John Helder Wedge and Batman's Parramatta friend Hamilton Hume." Batman negotiated

900-563: The Latin "circumspice" meaning "look around", the entire city of Melbourne being his legacy. The obelisk also states that Melbourne was "unoccupied" prior to John Batman's arrival in 1835. Australian sprinter Daniel Batman claimed to be a direct descendant of John Batman, although this claim is dubious, given that Batman's only son, John Charles Batman, died aged just 8 or 9 years old by drowning in at Yarra Falls on 11 January 1845. Despite his responsibility for many Aboriginal deaths, Batman

945-585: The Natives." Batman's neighbour in Van Diemen's Land, Glover said that he was "a rogue, thief, cheat and liar, a murderer of blacks and the vilest man I have ever known". Batman was diagnosed with syphilis in 1833. By 1835, Batman's property, "...Kingston [near Ben Lomond ], covered more than 7,000 acres (2,800 ha), had appropriate animals and buildings, and numerous hands; but it was too rugged to be highly productive." Batman sought land grants in

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990-538: The age of 38. Batman's treaty stands as the only attempt by a European to engage Australian Aboriginal people in a treaty or transaction rather than simply claiming land outright. However, Batman's motives and the validity of the treaty remain of great historical interest and debate. John Batman was born on 21 January 1801 in Parramatta , Colony of New South Wales . His parents, William and Mary Bat(e)man, arrived at Sydney aboard Ganges on 2 June 1797. William

1035-571: The banks of the Merri Creek in present-day Northcote (an inner suburb of Melbourne), "...using legal advice from the former Van Diemen's Land attorney-general, Joseph Gellibrand , and with the support of his Aboriginal companions from New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land ." However, Batman did not visit the colonial camp that was later set up on the Yarra River (i.e., Melbourne) until November 1835. Debate has continued for more than

1080-680: The blankets, knives, tomahawks, etc., that he gave them were very welcome". In any case, Governor Bourke deemed such a treaty invalid, as the land was claimed by the Crown, rather than the Kulin people, and other colonists including the rival party of John Pascoe Fawkner arrived to settle Melbourne. Batman and his family settled at what became known as Batman's Hill at the western end of Collins Street . Having sold his property "Kingston" in Tasmania and brought his wife, former convict Elizabeth Callaghan , and their seven daughters to Melbourne, he built

1125-552: The book for the Mythopoeic Society 's Mythprint , calls it "a remarkable, luminous, difficult book", and "the most purely mythopoeic of all Garner’s novels". Fisher warns that the work "is not for all readers", and not like Garner's other novels, either. In Fisher's view, it depicts "Garner's deep, almost baptismal immersion" into folklore and then an "alien mythology". The reader, he states, has to work actively to unravel "its abstruse layers". He found it "very much worth

1170-461: The disease eroded his nose, forcing him to wear a bandage to conceal his ruined face, he became estranged from his wife. In his last months of his life Batman was cared for by his Aboriginal servants, who carried him around in a wicker perambulator. Following Batman's death on 6 May 1839 his widow and family moved from the house at Batman's Hill and the house was requisitioned by the government for administrative offices. Batman's will, made in 1837,

1215-493: The effort". Another Tolkien scholar, Patrick Curry , lists Moby-Dick , The Master and Margarita , Le Grand Meaulnes , Riddley Walker , and Out of Africa as among the few works of "mythic fiction" that could be considered comparable to The Lord of the Rings , commenting that most of these were their authors' life's work. He wrote in 1997 that Strandloper might perhaps find a place alongside those books, but that it

1260-425: The eternal Dreamtime", in a form that only initiates can understand. In Philip's view, that makes Strandloper heavy with private meaning, and accordingly "hard to gauge": he supposes that the first page will cause many readers to give up, and that this was intentional on Garner's part. He summarizes the book's theme as that "Aboriginal spirituality offers a balance of individual and community, and man and landscape, of

1305-419: The government and it has been disputed by Aboriginal descendants. This expedition ultimately resulted in the founding of Melbourne , eventual capital of Victoria and one of Australia's largest and most important cities. Batman moved to the colony with his convict wife, Elizabeth Callaghan , and their seven daughters, settling on what is now known as Batman's Hill . He died of syphilis shortly afterwards at

1350-404: The government. Brady had been wounded in the leg in a conflict with the authorities, but got away safely. Batman went out unarmed on his own in search of Brady, and found him quite accidentally. He saw a man limping in the bush near a shallow creek, and hastened forward to him. It was Brady. He induced Brady to surrender and return with him. The outlaw was ill and suffering much pain, and did as he

1395-472: The holy man of the Beingalite people. Many years later he returns to England, and walks his home landscapes like an Aboriginal. Reaching the village church, he smears his body with clay and performs a spirit dance. Critics found the book private, idiosyncratic, and difficult; Jenny Turner admired its Buntingesque construction but disliked its biblical tone. The Tolkien scholar Jason Fisher likened it to

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1440-705: The last girl born on the Coranderrk Aboriginal Reserve in Healesville. In 2017, artist Ben Quilty called for Batman's statue to be removed from the Melbourne CBD, describing him as a mass murderer who "makes the American Confederates look friendly" and adding that "changing the inscription [on his statue] to 'mass murderer' might slightly appease my sense of justice." The Victorian electoral Division of Batman

1485-433: The men to fire upon them..." as their 40-odd dogs raised the alarm and the Aboriginal people ran away into thick scrub. In his report of the incident to the police magistrate at Oatlands, Batman estimated that they killed 15 Aboriginal people. The next morning, he left the place for his farm, with two badly wounded Tasmanian men, a woman and her two-year-old boy, all of whom he captured. However, he "...found it impossible that

1530-520: The old community ritual has been destroyed. He meets Edward and gives him the woomera. Esther is a married woman; she has named her son after William, but it seems the actual father is Edward. Though heartbroken, William accepts these events as part of "the Dance". Bidding Esther goodbye, he leaves to ritually walk the landscapes of Cheshire as he once walked Australia. His walk ends in the church. Taking off his clothes and painting his body with clay, he dances

1575-421: The reincarnation of their shaman, Murrangurk. William learns the Beingalite language; his epilepsy enables him to become their shaman. Taking Murrangurk’s name, he stays for thirty years, becoming a "feather-foot" - arbitrating in disputes, carrying out justice, and performing the "dreaming" rituals. The patterns he saw in his youthful visions are revealed as Aboriginal. Many years later, he intervenes to prevent

1620-469: The remnants of the tribe are forcibly Europeanised. Realizing his efforts have failed, he performs one last ritual in which he sees Bungil, the Beingalite ancestor. Bungil tells him that the Dreaming has been preserved: it is William's role to take it to his own home, for another person to take up later. As a token, Bungil gives William a ritual woomera spear-thrower. Back in Cheshire, William finds that

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1710-454: The slaughter of some newly-arrived English soldiers. He mediates between the Aboriginal tribes and the British sheep-farmers led by John Batman . For this, he is granted a governmental pardon, but remains as Murrangurk with his rituals. The aims of the settlers and Aborigines soon prove incompatible, as the Beingalite slaughter the settlers' sheep. In reprisal, the Beingalite are massacred, and

1755-414: The two former [the men] could walk, and after trying them by every means in my power, for some time, found I could not get them on I was obliged to shoot them." The captured woman, named Luggenemenener , was later sent to Campbell Town gaol and separated from her two-year-old son, Rolepana, "...whom she had faced death to protect." Batman reported afterwards to British Colonial Secretary, John Burnett, in

1800-504: Was apprenticed as a blacksmith in Sydney in 1816. In December 1821, John and his younger brother Henry journeyed to Van Diemen's Land (now known as Tasmania) to settle on land in the north-east, near Ben Lomond , to become a grazier . He acquired "Kingston", a property said to be "...large in acreage and poor agriculturally,...". In early 1826 Batman captured the bushranger Matthew Brady , resulting in an additional grant of land by

1845-885: Was asked. Brady was duly handed over to authorities at Launceston Gaol and later sentenced to death. He was hanged at Hobart . Batman participated in the many killings of Tasmanian Aboriginal people while in Tasmania. Many such killings are well documented in the Tasmanian State archives and Victorian State library records. Batman participated in the capture of some Aboriginal people in 1829. He employed mainland Aboriginal people hired in Sydney, New South Wales, for 'roving parties' hunting Tasmanian Aboriginal peoples. Between 1828 and 1830 Aboriginal people in this region were shot or rounded up by bounty hunters like Batman. As Tasmanian Colonial Governor, George Arthur , observed, Batman "...had much slaughter to account for". Closer examination of this quote from Governor Arthur reveals

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1890-612: Was left of Batman's estate. Batman was buried in the Old Melbourne Cemetery but was exhumed and re-buried in the Fawkner Cemetery , a cemetery named after his fellow colonist (and rival), John Pascoe Fawkner . A bluestone obelisk was constructed in 1922 which was later moved to Batman Avenue before being returned to the Queen Victoria Market site in 1992. The obelisk is inscribed with

1935-444: Was out of date at his death as many of the assets bequeathed to his children had already been sold. Years of legal wrangling followed his death, led by Eliza Batman, who had remarried in 1841 to Batman's former clerk, William Willoughby, and had only been left £5 in the will by her embittered first husband. The case dragged on, even after Batman's heir-at-law, his son John, drowned in the Yarra River in 1845, and its costs absorbed what

1980-570: Was sentenced to fourteen years' transportation the previous year for receiving stolen saltpetre , while his wife paid her fare to accompany him, bringing along their children Maria and Robert. William obtained his ticket of leave and started a timber-yard at Parramatta, where his five sons and daughter were raised. His sentence expired in 1810 and William later became a devout Wesleyan ; his children were trained as Anglican - Methodists . As Aboriginals were encouraged to come into Parramatta for charity and education, John knew many Aboriginals. John

2025-522: Was too early to tell. John Batman John Batman (21 January 1801 – 6 May 1839) was an Australian grazier , entrepreneur and explorer, who had a prominent role in the founding of Melbourne . Born and raised in the then-British colony of New South Wales , Batman settled in Van Diemen's Land (modern-day Tasmania ) in the 1820s, where he rose to prominence for hunting bushrangers and leading massacres of Aboriginal people in

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