History: Harding, Panter and Goldwyer

Last weekend we left you in the early stages of an exedition to find three missing explorers.

It is March 1865, and Maitland Brown is in charge of a well-armed, well equipped party formed to find the missing explorers Harding, Panter and Goldwyer, lost south of Roebuck Bay.

The men have just walked from De Grey station and spent half the night trying to free their 60 ton craft from the mud – without success.

First thing in the morning Maitland Brown wakes up to find Dutchmanchum, his unwilling native interpreter, has escaped.

Furious, Brown threatens to capture and hang an Aborigine every day until Dutchmanchum returns.

KimberleyPage will continue the story tomorrow.

Tags: Aboriginal, History, Police and courts, Stations