When we left our own place we were pleny of People, we are now but a little one.

Excerpt from the Jeanneret Petition to Her Majesty Queen Victoria, signed by 8 Aboriginal leader - Walter G. Arthur, Chief of the Ben Lomond Tribes; King Alexander; John Allen; Augustus; Davey Bruney; King Tippooo; Neptune; Washington. Wybalenna, Flinders Island, 17 February 1846