期刊名称：Journal of the Association for the Study of Australian Literature
印刷版ISSN：1447-8986
电子版ISSN：1833-6027
出版年度：2007
卷号：7
页码：126-129
出版社：Association for the Study of Australian Literature
摘要：In Chapter 5 of her book Writing Never Arrives Naked, Penny van Toorn
quotes a passage from the 1831 journal of George Augustus Robinson,
who had many dealings with Aborigines in Tasmania and, later, in Victoria.
It repeats a story that had been told to him by John Batman in a letter.
A Captain Kneale had taken a six-year-old Aboriginal boy to England in
1821:
One night the boy was in conversation with him [Captain Kneale] and
asked him who made the moon. He replied, God; God made everything.
Then, looking steadily up at the Heavens for a few moments as if in
deep refl ection, he [the boy] said, do you see that star near the moon?
He answered, yes. He replied, he supposed God made that star also?
He replied, yes. Ah, said he, the moon¡¯s after that star and he will catch
him too, and that he supposed the star was some poor black fellow and
the moon would soon catch him. (99)
