The+Barrabool+tribe

=**'Management and Protection of Local Blacks'**=

**1844**
- The Barrabool tribe of natives was found by the first settlers in 1836, locating on the coast from Indented Head to Werribee, in parties of families to insure better access in finding their food. They will be found in those places during the summer months, fishing and bathing.

When occasional visits took place, they commence by feasting and dancing, usually ending in a fight, for some of the tribe having a relation to average. On one of these occasions, the tribe lost their chief, Murorsenke, killed by the Yarra tribe. His loss was much regretted by the settlers. In 1839, during Winter, they suffered a lot from the prevailing influenza which fatelly attacked several females of their tribe.