Attack on stockworker
Then ‘at a place called the 8-mile swamp, 7 miles from the main road, Grant saw the same tribe he had seen in the morning’. Grant called out to ‘Joe, one of the chiefs’, who replied ‘in an abusive and insolent way’. He called to another man he obviously recognised, ‘Simon’, and in reply was ‘answered with a shower of spears’. Grant then was ‘compelled to retreat in quest of his companions … who were 3 miles away’.
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Sources
- Gazette, 10 June 1824, p. 2, Gazette, 12 August 1824, p. 2; Salisbury and Gresser, Windradyne of the Wiradjuri, pp. 25, 48. William Lawson Junior to Nelson Lawson, 14 June 1824, in Beard (ed.), Old Ironbark, p. 37.
Event mentions
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Attack on stockworker1 Jun 1824 — Near 8-mile swampThen ‘at a place called the 8-mile swamp, 7 miles from the main road, Grant saw the same tribe he had seen in the morning’. Grant called out to ‘Joe, one of the chiefs’, who replied ‘in an abusive and insolent way’. He called to another man he obviously recognised, ‘Simon’, and in reply was ‘answered with a shower of spears’. Grant then was ‘compelled to retreat in quest of his companions … who were 3 miles away’.Source: Gazette, 10 June 1824, p. 2, Gazette, 12 August 1824, p. 2; Salisbury and Gresser, Windradyne of the Wiradjuri, pp. 25, 48. William Lawson Junior to Nelson Lawson, 14 June 1824, in Beard (ed.), Old Ironbark, p. 37.