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7th February 1933 - earthy implications of our tribal relationships
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... we got a small storm of about twenty two points which hunted me inside as I was sleeping on the sand outside in the cool.

Today we started to pack up the gear and dismantle the balance and spent the rest of the day busy packing.

Murch and I were subjects for a urea concentration test but after all the preliminaries the dust storm got up again making things impossible.

Wednesday 8/2/1933
Our test, which was some sort of control, was done early this morning to dodge the dust, but it did not start today following a couple of points last night. Miller and a station owner called Macnamara have come back. Macnamara is the owner of a station called Bosun's Hole 16 miles south of the Gosses. We travelled across his property during the trip. He gave me a couple of photos of the man up on the murder charge, taken on his place a year or so ago and was very interested to hear the state of the water holes out Mt. Liebig way, telling us that he knew of only two white men who had gone out by that route before. One was Cramer and the other Albrecht.

I told Macnamara privately about the rain area south of Mt. Liebig and my walk. He spent some time lecturing me about the folly of it, but also said that he had seen such areas once or twice himself and reckoned one good storm could do it. He said that it was too far out for him to use it even temporarily for his cattle and too risky, as they might get stranded. He thought the natives were not in Arundta territory and must be others. He had never been out that far himself as it was believed to be useless country.

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