ABSTRACT
Baloderree died in December 1791 after a very short illness and was buried in the governor’s garden at Sydney Cove. He was a young member of the Eora people whose country took in the shores and immediate hinterland of Sydney harbour where the British fleet had arrived in January 1788 to establish a penal colony. According to David Collins (1798: 601-5), Baloderree had been brought to the hospital which the British had set up, but when, during the night, his fever worsened, ‘his friends, thinking he would be better with them, put him into a canoe, intending to take him to the north shore’. But he died on the way across the harbour.
