Records that while crossing a grassy flat near Humptydoo, the car came to a sudden stop. The differential had hit a large stone embedded in the black soil.

1. Photograph: ‘Scene along the track to Darwin’

2. Photograph: ‘Smiler removing the stone that stopped the car’

Places mentioned: Humptydoo (NT)

People mentioned: Smiler (Australian Aboriginal man)

Photo number/s as per Journal and Index of Photographs: 326, 327