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Globe, Volume VI, Issue 681, 25 August 1876, Page 4

Attack by Blacks on the Hodgkinson. —The correspondent of the Brisbane Telegraph, writing from the Hodgkinson Eiver, describes an attack by natives as follows :—" A party of five prospectors were visited while in camp a few days since by some blacks, who notified their approach by a shower of spears. The whites scattered and made for trees. One of them, while snapping a revolver which would not explode, was speared through the leg, and fell, A blackfellow ran up to him, and as he stood over the prostrate white, nulla uplifted was shot bv one of the man's mates, and fell dead alongside of his intended victim. Four more went over to the majority before they beat a retreat. After the conclusion of the affray it was found necessary to cut off a po T tion of the spear before withdrawing it, on account of the barb at the point. On the following morning four whites left camp on a mission of vengeance, armed with a gun, a rifle, and a half-axe. After following the tracks of the blacks for several miles, they came upon them busily occupied in putting barbs on spears, apparently preparing for a fresh attack. The owner of the revolver made a circuit, and, getting to the other side of the blacks, commenced the attack. In their surprise they fled in the direction of his mates, who received them warmly, and events occurred in the conflict wbioh proved that a half-axe in the hands of a determined man is a very useful weapon in an emergency."

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