The settlers are mostly disturbed by the man, who calls himself Gemmy. They march him back to the settlement, Lachlan’s ego swelling with an image of himself as a powerful dominator, and show the other white settlers.
However, after taking the man captive by pretending a long stick is actually a rifle, Lachlan and his cousins, Janet and Meg, discover that the man is in fact a European, though he speaks and acts like an indigenous person. Lachlan, the young boy, sees the man’s darkened skin and assumes he is one of the Aboriginal tribesmen who live in the Australian wilderness.
In Queensland, Australia in the mid-1800s, three children of Commonwealth settlers are playing in a clearing when a strange man appears, sitting balanced upon a fence.
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