time had elapsed the Governor pardoned Charlie, but Dad held he had exceeded his powers, inasmuch, he argued, that the Crown could not pardon a man of a offence of which they had not proved him guilty. However Charlie was such a turbulent man even among his own people, that some of them waited one day for him, and when he went down into a deep native sand well for a drink they killed him.
Uncle Sam is buried in Roebourne cemetery.
The native tribe occupying the country from the Peewah R. E, and the Maitland W. and up to the foot of the Tableland (roughly) called themselves and their language Nga-loo-ma. In this language Ching-i means River, and as all the Roebourne rivers run roughly south, the whites generally referred to the south or inland as Chinghi when talking to the natives. That is the only meaning the word has. Chinghi is not a place name. The abo name of Andover is Choo-che-kun-ga-ra; of Roebourne, Yirra-muck-a-doo (sometimes spelt erroneously Eramuckadoo).
