Wautharong
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Wautharong, Indigenous Australian tribe living in the area near Melbourne. Part of the Kulin alliance. The Wathaurung language was spoken by 15 clans south of the Werribee River and the Bellarine Peninsula to Streatham. They were sometimes referred to by Europeans as the Barrabool people. The escaped convict, William Buckley lived with this community for 32 years, between 1803 and 1835, before being found by John Batman on 6 July 1835.
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