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Western Port, a large tidal bay just an hour’s drive to the east of Australia's second most populous city, Melbourne, is today home to Australian fur seals, whales, dolphins, and Phillip Island’s famous colony of fairy penguins.
And according to the indigenous tribes of the area, and many of the colonists who first settled there, the nearby mountain ranges of Western Port were once home to a fearful large, hairy creature that often walked holding a stick, built shelters from the weather and had once attacked a a camp and carried away women and children. To the Western Port tribes it was known as “Bundyllcarno”.
On 16 July 1847, the Geelong Advertiser and Squatters’ Advocate, wrote of the Wild Man of the Australian Woods stating that: “A creature described by the natives as something very similar to an ourang-out-tang is supposed by many colonists to exist in the mountain ranges at the back of Western Port, but their ideas of it are mixed up with such a superstitious dread as to induce many to consider it only in the light of an imaginary being, created by their own fears, or by interested parties amongst them selves.”....
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