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<blockquote data-quote="davent" data-source="post: 376286" data-attributes="member: 6002"><p>I posted an a story about Margret diggings in the NT, Grove hill area a few years back, can't find it now, but the crux of the story went something like, a trooper and his guide (tracker) rode to MD on horse back, by all accounts it was a terrible trip, with spear grass all the way, very hot and humid. </p><p>As they approached the diggings, they rode past a dead Chinese digger. When the owner was confronted, he tries to get the trooper on the whiskey, but the trooper was more concerned about the body. No claimed to know anything about it, so he took the body to the gambling house and strapped to one of the pillars inside, and waited for someone to remove it, then he could get an ID on him. Apparently a family member would always look after the body.</p><p>Many many died up here as down south as well. </p><p>One grim job was the custom s officer at fanny bay, who had to crack the bones of skeletons being sent back to China with a hammer, as the hollows were often filled with gold. Same with ashes in urns, they were weighed, and if over a certain weight, were emptied and gold recovered. </p><p>They were hard men in those days. I can't imagine what the conditions would have been like in the 1870,s at bloody Pine Creek! They're not great now ffs!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="davent, post: 376286, member: 6002"] I posted an a story about Margret diggings in the NT, Grove hill area a few years back, can't find it now, but the crux of the story went something like, a trooper and his guide (tracker) rode to MD on horse back, by all accounts it was a terrible trip, with spear grass all the way, very hot and humid. As they approached the diggings, they rode past a dead Chinese digger. When the owner was confronted, he tries to get the trooper on the whiskey, but the trooper was more concerned about the body. No claimed to know anything about it, so he took the body to the gambling house and strapped to one of the pillars inside, and waited for someone to remove it, then he could get an ID on him. Apparently a family member would always look after the body. Many many died up here as down south as well. One grim job was the custom s officer at fanny bay, who had to crack the bones of skeletons being sent back to China with a hammer, as the hollows were often filled with gold. Same with ashes in urns, they were weighed, and if over a certain weight, were emptied and gold recovered. They were hard men in those days. I can't imagine what the conditions would have been like in the 1870,s at bloody Pine Creek! They're not great now ffs! [/QUOTE]
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