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How ‘Port Essington Jack’ and his brothers were kidnapped and brought to Hong Kong
The fascinating story of how three young Indigenous boys were kidnapped and taken to Hong Kong before being rescued by an unlikely hero has been uncovered by a Darwin-based historian.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are advised that this article contains the image of a person who has died.
Key points:
- Three young brothers were kidnapped from their NT home and taken to Hong Kong as slaves in the 1830s
- Years later, Commander Crawford Pasco rescued the boys
- One of the boys, Medlone, went on to be the Territory’s oldest Indigenous man of his time
Medlone was born about 1835 on the Cobourg Penninsula, 350 kilometres east of Darwin, about three years before the Victoria Settlement was established at the nearby Port Essington.
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