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Mr. J. T. Embley, surveyor, left Princess Charlotte Bay in June, 1884, ran the Coleman River down to the west coast, and afterwards went northward to the Archer River, and south-eastward to Lalla Roohk (the station on the Stewart River taken up by Massy Bros. in 1882.) On this journey the blacks were found to be "very wild and warlike."
In 1891, he took pup land at Red Island Point, and built a homestead named Thornbury on Black Gin Creek, near the telegraph line. There is now a trade in bullocks, which are killed at Red Island Point, refrigerated on Red Island, and shipped to Thursday Island.