“As you expressed I wish to be acquainted with some of the natives, if you will dine with me tomorrow you will oblige me by christening a fine native boy...
“As you expressed I wish to be acquainted with some of the natives, if you will dine with me tomorrow you will oblige me by christening a fine native boy who I have. Unfortunately poor boy, his father and mother were killed. He is about two years old”.
3rd May 1804 letter of invitation from Mountgarret to the Rev. Robert Knopwood for his first direct contact with a Tasmanian Aborigine, a surviving infant from the Risdon massacre