There are many historical references to the Cadigal including the following. Lt Dawes notes: I [Dawes] then told her [Patyegorang] that a whiteman had been wounded some days ago in coming from Kadi [Cadi Bay centred on Kutti Beach] to Wȧráŋ [Sydney] & asked her why the black men did it (Dawes (1789-92, notebook b, p. 34). David Collins (1802, p. 469), Judge-Advocate in colonial Sydney notes, "As a proof of the numbers of those miserable people who were carried off by this disorder, Ben-nil-long told us, that his friend Cole-be’s tribe being reduced by its effects to three persons, Cole-be, the boy Nan-bar-ray, and some one else, they found themselves compelled to unite with some other tribe, not only for their personal protection, but to prevent the extinction of their tribe. Whether this incorporation ever took place I cannot say; I only know that the natives themselves, when distinguishing between this man and another of the same name at Botany Bay, always styled him Cad-i Cole-be; Cad-i being the name of his district; and Cole-be, when he came into the field some time after, appeared to be attended by several very fine boys who kept close by his side, and were of his party." Tindale (1974, p. 193) notes the Cadigal were Kadigal (horde on south side of Port Jackson), Caddiegal.