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QSA17619 1855 Letter from Francis Nicoll to Commandant 11 April, Letters to the Government Resident by the Colonial Secretary, Sydney & Inspector-General Police on Native Police Matters, DR52067
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than one body. Lt [Lieutenant] Fulford had started on the morning of the 15th, had run up the Yulbar [Yuleba] Creek, and we met upon the track on the 16th. On the 16th and 17th we followed the tracks through very dense scrubs, and broken country, and on the afternoon of the latter day, we separated into two parties to search a very scrubby and broken hill. My party followed the track of "Dicky", the black mentioned in Gillies' deposition, and which was not to be mistaken from the great size of his foot. We had scarcely penetrated half a mile, when I heard shots to my right, and pushing forward found a camp just deserted by "Dicky" and two gins. "Dicky's" red
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