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Commissioner MacDonald reported that in October 1844 a shepherd had been killed by Aborigines on the Irby Station at Bolivia, but no retalitory action was mentioned in the despatch. However, Edward Irby himself, when writing of the incident, describes how one of his shepherds, Robinson, had been killed by Aborigines and how four men had set out to find the culprits. In these few simple words he described in his journal the terrible deeds of that day:
"The blacks saw us coming and hid themselves on the rocks.
One, in his haste, dropped poor Robinson's coat so we knew we
were onto the right tribe. If they had taken to their heels
they might have got away, instead of doing so, they got their
fighting men to attack us. So we punished them severely and
proved our superiority to them."