On 6 July 1835, William Buckley appeared at the campsite of John Batman's Port Phillip Association with a party of Aboriginal people who had told him about the sighting of a ship. The three European men at the camp fed him and treated him with kindness.Buckely fight withhimself since he know saw himself as Wathuarung but knew he was English. This was an issue because the Wathuarung wanted to kill the new settlers for their belongings. Buckley managed to make peace with both cultures. Buckley fearful of being shot, he told the settlers he was a shipwrecked soldier, but a few days later he revealed his identity, to the amazement of everybody present. In September 1835, he was granted a pardon by Lieutenant-Governor Arthur, in Van Diemen's Land.