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The Aborigines' Friend and the Colonial Intelligencer…

When Sir Edward Eyre was appointed by Lord Grey, the Secretary of State for the Colonies, to be the Assistant-Governor of New Zealand, an arrangement was made at the Colonial Office for the purpose of defraying the expense of maintaining and educating Edward Warrulan in this country, out of the fund set apart for the benefit of the South-Australian natives, and Dr. Hodgkin, probably at the suggestion of Sir Edward Eyre, was requested to act as his guardian in carrying out the plan. As a special favour, admission was obtained for him into an agricultural school at Sibford, in Oxfordshire.
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The Aborigines' Friend and the Colonial Intelligencer…

Edward Warrulan, an Australian Lad.
Edward Warrulan was the son of one of the chiefs amongst the natives of South Australia, residing not far from Adelaide. He was brought to England by Edward Eyre, the distinguished Australian traveller, accompanied by another native lad, who, after some short stay, was, it is believed, carried back to his own country, and of whose subsequent fate we are uninformed. Edward's age was not exactly known, but he was a mere child. He accompanied his kind patron almost wherever he went, and his good and orderly conduct was certainly very remarkable.
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The Aborigines' Friend and the Colonial Intelligencer…

We would also beg those who as yet have not learnt to sympathize with the uncivilized, but regard them as savages devoted to destruction, to reflect how many of Edward's unhappy countrymen might have lived as amiable and useful men, or have died with Christian hope as he did, had they not been sacrificed to the vices and cruelty of the white man, or suffered to perish through his indifference.
"Edward Warrulan arrived in Banbury from London in 1847, and proceeded to Sibford school.
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