Volume 3

Night spent at Marrakai station before departing for Darwin, see group photograph number 319. Crossed the Margaret and Adelaide Rivers and struck a patch of Devil-devil country.

1. Photograph: ‘The farewell at Marrakai. From the left are Smiler, Mathieson, Richie, Pauline, Wyatt, Gaden and Ron’ (Note: the name Gaden is underscored and annotated ‘since developed leprosy’.

2. Photograph: ‘Devil-devil country
Places mentioned: Marrakai station (NT); Darwin (NT); Adelaide River (NT); Margaret River (NT)

People mentioned: Smiler (Australian Aboriginal man); [Duncan Neil] Mathieson (1891-1979); Richie (station manager); Pauline [Wyatt]; [Bill] Wyatt; [Hazel] Gaden (1892-?) (Buffalo Hunter); Ron [Wyatt]

Physical feature mentioned: Devil-devil country

Photo number/s as per Journal and Index of Photographs: 319, 320

CreatorCecil John Hackett
ControlAA 122/3/3/21
Date Range1934  -  1934
Quantity 0.01cm,   3   B&W photographs 155x105 mm
FormatsMounted Photographic Prints
Series AA 122/03/01