Title
Finding the remains of the lost explorers Harding, Panter, and Goldwyer...North-West Australia, 1865 Creator: Unknown.
Caption
Finding the remains of the lost explorers Harding, Panter, and Goldwyer, near Lagrange Bay, North-West Australia, 1865. Engraving of a sketch by Mr. D. Francisco. 'Mr. Brown...had no great difficulty in making prisoners of as many natives as they met...two or three...were compelled to serve as guides...[they] reluctantly [took] the lead, each attached...by a light chain...[It appears that Harding, Panter, and Goldwyer had] met a tribe of natives called Wiognarry...[and] were attacked by [them], of whom they killed three...the natives watched them till they fell asleep, and then stole quietly up and stuck spears in them...the white men rose to their feet and succeeded in shooting fifteen of their assailants and driving the rest away, who afterwards, before daylight, returned...and succeeded this time in killing the white men with spears and clubs...Dougale...caught sight of a compass hanging from a...cajeputi tree...With what dreadful anxiety we rode up to that tree...There, at its foot, lay the dead bodies of our friends...The body of Goldwyer was lying on its face...dressed in a riding costume, perfectly recognisable but decayed to a skeleton. Scattered round were...journal books...rusted revolvers...and the usual travelling equipments'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865.
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