My name is Dennis Pabongi and I'm son of Samson and Florence. Samson is the descendant of the Waller tribe from North Malay, and so on in Ireland. My first three collections of my history, my father's history, of him telling and relating to us his father's story, my grandfather's story. He begins by telling us that one day my grandfather as a 16-year-old was swimming in the harbour at Betihama and North Malayta, and he noticed a large ship pulling in and anchoring in the harbour. And shortly after the people on the boats invited him onto the ship, onto the boat to go in and have a party. So he got up on the deck and once he was on deck, they invited him to go below deck. When he was down, they shut the closed the trap doors and he was underneath and they kept on filling the boats and then he was kidnapped to Queensland. He was forced to work on many and varied plantations and then he was housed in the shed or quarters that were provided by the plantation owners. And because of the strange environment and harsh conditions, many of his peers had died in that situation while living there. Slowly over time, he adapted to his new situation. He began to grow cultural crops like tarot and he looked for main grow shoots and took advantage of the areas where were good for fishing and crabbing and that was very good in his situation, helped him to survive. After some time, he settled and he met and married Joyce Ferdinand and they had a family but Joyce passed away and he married, remarried Emma Fakwande and overall he spoke in Pigeon English and he told his children not to speak Pigeon or speak the language that he'd learn upon. He never taught them but he said you are new culture and you're environment. You've got to forget that you have to learn English. You've got to go to school and learn to live in the Australian society. We became a culture culturally illiterate except for the foods. In other words, we lost most of our culture. The language, the traditional dance and songs and we had to learn the new culture and do my parents had 13 children and from that 30 came over 200 descendants and so we as a family and learned early on from my father that we would stick together to support one another and we are settled now, one of the positive things is that we are settled now and my grandchildren are able to become prosperous in a modern Australia.