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John McDouall Stuart - Sixth Expedition - Preamble 7

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Written by William Hardman

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A week later (on March 12th) the Centre was passed; and on the 17th, while going from Woodforde Creek through the bad country towards the Bonney, Thring met with an awkward accident, which his leader thus describes:

"Being anxious to keep my old tracks through the scrub, as it does not wear the saddle-bags so much as breaking through a new line, I missed them about two miles after starting, in consequence of the earliness and cloudiness of the morning.

I sent Thring in search of them, and he, on finding them a short distance off, fired his revolver to let us know that the tracks were found.

The young horse he was riding stood the first report very well. I, not hearing the report, was moving on, which caused him to fire again, whereupon his horse backed and threw him with violence to the ground on his chest. He feels his chest is much hurt by the fall.

The horse then returned on the tracks at full gallop," and was not recovered until shortly before sundown.

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