Murdering Gully: settlers killed 35 in Aboriginal camp, and threw bodies into the water

One of the few survivors told the assistant protector of Aborigines the white men came on horseback and began firing

One day at dawn in early 1839, Frederick Taylor and a number of other armed white men rode on horseback into a sleeping camp of Aboriginal people near present-day Terang in Victoria's western district. Most of the people encamped on the banks of Mount Emu Creek were of the Tarnbeere gundidj clan, members of the Djargurd wurrung language group.

The settlers killed about 35 of the roughly 50 people in the camp, and threw the bodies into the water.