Duall

Duall (c.1795 – c.1840), also known as Dual or Dewall, was an Indigenous Australian of the Gandangara nation who was a leading figure in various exploration parties organised by notable New South Wales colonial figures such as Hamilton Hume and Charles Throsby.

Despite working with the colonists, Duall also took up a role in resisting British occupation. He was formally outlawed by Governor Lachlan Macquarie and was made prisoner after a British military operation against the Gandangara people which culminated in the Appin massacre. Duall was sentenced to transportation in Van Diemen's Land but later returned to New South Wales where he continued to be employed as an expedition guide. It has been stated that he possibly was of Dharawal descent but he was always associated with Gandangara people in early documentation even though he later resided on the borders of Dharawal land around what is now Camden.

In 1814, Duall guided John Kennedy and a young Hamilton Hume as far as the region called Berrima.

Frontier conflict and Duall declared an outlaw In the same year, conflict between the Gandangara and the British flared. British settlers on Gandangara land around Appin were angered that the Aboriginal people were taking crops grown by them. In May, a small group of British soldiers fired upon some Gandangara plundering corn near Mallaty Creek, killing a boy. The Gandangara immediately fought back and were able to kill one of the soldiers named Isaac Eustace. A punitive expedition was later organised by some of the colonists, which surprised a woman and her two infants sleeping at camp-site. This was the wife and children of a Gandangara man named Bitugally and they were subsequently killed and their bodies mutilated by the colonists.

Duall was killed in an inter-tribal fight with an Illawarra based clan of Dharawal people probably around 1840.