Three of the Mount Clay tribe .
South Western District Aborigines T Hannay photo 1859.
Lieutenant James Grant,R .N.charting the coast of South Western Victoria for the first time in December,1800 ,wrote in his journal ; Again all through the night,saw many natives fires along the coast..Within a very few years those fires were to be extinguished forever. The Aboriginal population South of the Murray was about 6000,in 1839 .Within 50 years _ before 1890_ the tribes were exterminated, for the most part; and decimated so far as the reminant existed at all..
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