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When I was droving out west on one occasion, Mr. Mazlin and Sub Inspector Kaye were called to proceed to the Lower Diamantina, then on to the Georgina—in those days called the Herbert—the blacks being very troublesome. Several murders were committed by the blacks on drovers of travelling stock. They (the police) were out about one month at that particular time. After a very severe chase and a most trying time, they captured the blacks who had committed the murders, being 38 hours without water on the deserts nearing the borders of South Australia. Some stages were 90 miles without water.