Box 5/Item 21: Notebook re. Aboriginal languages, sign language, songs and tribes, undated - Page 39
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Leave Deep Well 98.3 [Features illustration - a sketch of area surrounding Stuart Township, indicating location of granite and quartzite? in hills or cliffs]
Qtzte [Quartzite ?] Qtzte Stuart Township / Granite. Limestone further W [west?].
The wild thirteen. Used to take any bed they wanted, Killing beast not far from Station and then call for salt. Did this for "flashness".
The old hut at Jay Gorge built in early days in W Gilberts time [?] as outstation of Owen's Springs where two men raided when cattle stealing and spearing rampant.
Barrow Creek Tragedy. [...?] Ass. Operator speared in thigh and boomerang on shoulder Frank right through chest so that he could not enter the kitchen door but fell in courtyard. Stapleton speared in abdomen. The only man around was the Station black bay who fired once but revolver was old fashioned and refused to work a second time. Jason [?] was playing his fiddle at time.