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after being speared. After capturing and chaining up a
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people from the time of their arrival. Many of their shepherds absconded, horses were speared and hundreds of their sheep were taken. The brothers had to do much of the shepherding work themselves and often engaged in close combat with "the Blacks". On one occasion
Fortescue was slightly wounded
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with an area located between the
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to the south. The locality includes a number of geological features consisting of the dormant volcano,
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located on land to the west of the
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British colonisation of the area began in 1842 when brothers Edward and
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located about 385 kilometres (239 miles) south-east of the state capital of
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and 14 kilometres (8.7 miles) south of the municipal seat of
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