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White Lives in a Black Community: The lives of Jim Page and Rebecca Forbes in the Adnyamathanha communityTracy SpencerVolume One Creative Writing Component: Excerpted Chapters from Volume Three Appendix OneBecky Castledine c. 1900. Photograph courtesy of Brian Castledine.Both receive their acceptance, for departure from Port of London on the RMS Oruba on16th October, 1908. Beck purchases ships trunks for her luggage allowance, and heeding theAgent General’s warning, visits the London Bank to withdraw her savings, but then, leavesone hundred and twenty one pounds in her account, ‘just in case’. They spend their last twonights in London at the Scandinavian House, at West Indies Docks, where the QueenslandGovernment provides accommodation to emigrating passengers, giving time to be seen by theDispatching Officer and receive their tickets. 35 Beck’s sisters are there for the departure,lugging mother’s old rockingchair and other small items Beck has to plead with the porters to28