‘The finding of Pamphlett’ by J.R. Ashton, in the Picturesque Atlas of Australas…

‘The finding of Pamphlett’ by J.R. Ashton, in the Picturesque Atlas of Australasia, 1886.
Thomas Pamphlett (1788?–1838), also known as James Groom, was a convict in colonial Australia. He is best known for his time as a castaway in the Bribie Island area. In 1823 he was marooned with two others, Richard Parsons and John Finnegan, until rescued by the local Indigenous people, and later found by explorer John Oxley on HMS Mermaid on 29 November of that year. They were the first white people to live in the area.