Sheep driven off Robert Leake’s Inverary run, 21 May 1844
Robert Leake and his overseer McIntyre track sheep stolen from the Inverary run to an Aboriginal camp a mile and a half away. Leake reports that they advanced on the camp and were threatened with spears. He claims that he ‘fired over their heads’, and when spears were thrown at them he fired at an approaching man, at which point that man, and the others ran off.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
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Sources
- 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
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Sheep driven off Robert Leake’s Inverary run, 21 May 184421 May 1844 — Inverary runRobert Leake and his overseer McIntyre track sheep stolen from the Inverary run to an Aboriginal camp a mile and a half away. Leake reports that they advanced on the camp and were threatened with spears. He claims that he ‘fired over their heads’, and when spears were thrown at them he fired at an approaching man, at which point that man, and the others ran off.
(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