A flock of sheep ‘forcibly taken possession of by a party of natives’ were recovered ‘through the courage and persevering efforts’ of two shepherds who beat the Aboriginal men off with stout saplings. Frederick Dutton stated that ‘the blacks so severely injured one shepherd while alone in charge of his flock that his life was despaired of for some time’ but that he would recover.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)