Mid-North Coast: Aboriginal tribes with localities, 1938

‘Billy was … one of the very few surviving natives who saw the first Europeans arrive and settle on the Clarence … The late Mr Hewitt has left on record much that Billy imparted to him … Billy lived to see Grafton a city of 8000 inhabitants arise from a wilderness, and to see their hunting grounds transformed into farms and the wide expanse of grass land where roamed the emu and the kangaroo, into paddocks to feed cattle and horses … With all his friends gone he had little to make him care for life, and he now has passed away at a good old age. “Kooahmatte! Koorahm Nyah-gan!” — “Northern Star”’, from obituary in Richmond River Express and Casino Kyogle Advertiser, 27 August 1915