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 axe and also killed Joe Murray, a Roebourne native. The murderers were all North West Cape natives. The cause of Uncle's being killed was the natives could not account for Joe Murray (whom they wanted to kill).

The next affair was the plan on the DeGrey to catch Nairn and his party at a corroboree. The nets were to be placed in a semicircle and when the whites came within the circle the nets were to be drawn round them and they were to be killed very quickly.

(Notes received from H. Aubrey Hall, Carnarvon, June 13, 1928

While Wellard's party under Dad at Andover and John Withnell's camp at Roebourne were without police protection, the worst trouble with natives that occurred was when a native assaulted a lad named Lewington, or at least Lewington and a native had a scuffle on the Harding River, I think near McCourt's camp, and the native threw Lewington (a lad of sixteen or eighteen) into a pool. He was not seriously hurt.

After Sholl arrived, and many more settlers - I think subsequent to the Portland influx (because I think Alex McRae was a member of the punitive expedition) - two sailormen (foreigners, I fancy) were repairing a beach-combing craft on the beach in Nicol Bay when the natives attacked them at low water, on a moonlight night, chased