“[T]he Tasmanian bushrangers began as convict kangaroo hunters who stayed out in the bush and formed gangs. . . .

They had long ratty hair, thick beards, roughly sewn garments and moccasins of kangaroo hide, a pistol stuck in a rope belt, a stolen musket, a polecat’s stench. When on raids, they blacked their faces with charcoal. Most of them would kill a man as soon as a kangaroo. Some joked about this.”

—Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore: The Epic of Australia’s Founding, 1987.