GRIM DISCOVERY.
Alklbocrne, November 25
The Inspector of Aborigines in the Northern Territory reports finding iu a cave ou the Roper river a large quantity of remains of human beings of all ages. A native guide has stated that mauy years ago forty or fifty natives camped in the cave and that a flash of lightning passed through it and killed every oue of them.
An aged native told the inspector that his parents took him to see the bodies the day after the incident, which is estimated to have happened seventy years since.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1075, 28 November 1911, Page 3
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94GRIM DISCOVERY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1075, 28 November 1911, Page 3
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