Capture of an Aboriginal man to guide Hugonin’s mounted party, 21 May 1842

Date: 21 May 1842
Place: Near Pillaworta, Port Lincoln
On 21 May 1842, a mounted party of nine men comprised of Hugonin, Driver, several settlers and police ‘rode down’ an Aboriginal man (a ‘native boy’) and forced him to act as a guide to find other Aboriginal people in the vicinity. Driver subsequently sent ‘the boy’ to Adelaide to remove him from the ‘ill-disposed’ tribe to which he belonged.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
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  • Capture of an Aboriginal man to guide Hugonin’s mounted party, 21 May 1842
    21 May 1842 — Near Pillaworta, Port Lincoln
    On 21 May 1842, a mounted party of nine men comprised of Hugonin, Driver, several settlers and police ‘rode down’ an Aboriginal man (a ‘native boy’) and forced him to act as a guide to find other Aboriginal people in the vicinity. Driver subsequently sent ‘the boy’ to Adelaide to remove him from the ‘ill-disposed’ tribe to which he belonged.
    (See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
    Source: Robert Foster, Skye Krichauff and Amanda Nettelbeck, The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 2024, http://ua.edu.au/south-australian-frontier