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When he travelled to the Northern Territory to take up a position with the Overland Telegraph Line in 1875, Francis Gillen kept a daily diary chronicling his travels, encounters, and experiences.
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Editor's note: F. J. Gillen's diary was written in ink, in a small A6 black covered notebook. The diary was located during the 1970s at the South Australian Museum among the papers of the Adelaide psychiatrist and anthropologist, H. K. Fry, to whom the diary had been lent by Gillen's son, J. B. Gillen. This transcription was made by Francis Gillen's grandson, Dr Robert Gillen, from a copy made available by Philip Jones of the South Australian Museum.
