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The Bunurong were a small tribe in the Mornington Peninsula. Before the arrival of the the aborted Collins settlement at Sorrento in 1803, they had been attacked by the Gippsland tribes, losing about half their strength, and then numbered about 300. After the departure of the settlers the same year, they lost a further 20 in inter-tribal warfare, and further numbers to Bass Strait sealers kidnapping women, and introducing smallpox. When William Thomas was appointed Assistant Protector of Aboriginals with them in 1839, there were only 83 remaining. Even these few were afflicted of venereal disease and dysentry, and although they raided the Gippsland tribes for women, the effects of disease, Alcoholism, internal murders, executions and death in gaol had by 1850 reduced their numbers to 28 with no children. None was seen in the southern part of the Mornington Peninsula after 1856, the remaining survivors living a precarious and degraded existence on a reserve at Mordiallic, with the last of the full blood tribesmen dying in 1877.

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