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His Excellency's Late Expedition to the Murchison River extract   diary  
Issue Details: First known date: 1848... 1848 His Excellency's Late Expedition to the Murchison River
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The extract describes a hostile encounter with the indigenous people of the area between Champion Bay and the Murchison River, Western Australia. Following the extract is published personal accounts of the incident by Gregory, Rivett Henry Bland and Thomas Bailey 'taken upon oath the 21st December, 1848, before W. H. Mackie and G. Leake'. (The Perth Gazette, and Independent Journal of Politics and News (30 December, 1849): 3.

Notes

  • Editor's note: Extract from Diary of Asst.-Surveyor Gregory, December 1848.

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Subjects:
  • Champion Bay, Geraldton area, Dongara - Geraldton - Northampton area, Southwest Western Australia, Western Australia,
  • 1848
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