CHAPTER IX. 
BOY SPEARED BY THE NATIVES ANOMALOUS STATE OF OUR 
RELATIONS WITH THE ABORIGINES — MR. SCOTT SAILS FOR 
ADELAIDE DOG BOUGHT— MR. SCOTT’S RETURN CUTTER 
WATERWITCH SENT TO CO-OPERATE SEND HER TO 
STREAKY BAY LEAVE PORT LINCOLN WITH THE DRAY 
LEVEL SANDY COUNTRY CLOTHED WITH BRUSH AND 
SHRUBS — SALT LAKES — MOUNT HOPE — LAKE HAMILTON 
STONY COUNTRY LOSE A DOG — BETTER COUNTRY 
WEDGE HILL — LAKE NEWLAND — A BOAT HARBOUR — MOUNT 
HALL REJOIN PARTY AT STREAKY BAY— SINGULAR SPRING 
CHARACTER OF COUNTRY — BEDS OF OYSTERS. 
October 6 . — In the course of the afternoon I 
learnt that a little boy about twelve years old, a 
son of Mr. Hawson’s, had been speared on the 
previous day by the natives, at a station about a 
mile and a half from my tent. The poor little 
fellow had, it seems, been left alone at the station, 
and the natives had come to the hut and speared 
him. The wounds were of that fatal character, 
being from barbed spears which had remained in 
the flesh, that no hopes could be entertained of his 
surviving their removal. The following account 
of the occurrence is extracted from a report, on the 
subject, to the Government by Dr. Harvey, the 
Colonial Surgeon at Port Lincoln, who attended the 
boy in his last sufferings. 
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