Crawford’s overland party harassed as they attempted to cross the River, 28-29 March 1839

Date: 28 Mar 1839
Place: Murray River, past its junction with the Darling Rivers
Crawford describes an attempt by Aboriginal people to ‘rush’ their camp and driving them off with ‘a volley’. The following day, he claims forty or fifty were ‘among the cattle’ and that only by a ‘determined front’ did they drive them away.
(See 'The South Australian Frontier and its Legacies' for more details.)
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  • Crawford’s overland party harassed as they attempted to cross the River, 28-29 March 1839
    28 Mar 1839 — Murray River, past its junction with the Darling Rivers
    Crawford describes an attempt by Aboriginal people to ‘rush’ their camp and driving them off with ‘a volley’. The following day, he claims forty or fifty were ‘among the cattle’ and that only by a ‘determined front’ did they drive them away.
    (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