‘Horseshoe Bend saw the last hours of Pastor Strehlow, the grand old man of the Hermannsburg Mission Station. He made the 160-mile journey down the Finke from the Mission in the old Mission cart, a dying man; but beyond Horseshoe Bend he could not go. They buried that devoted follower of his Master on the Finke, in the country to which he gave his life, in a coffin made of the only timber available, that of old whisky cases. He said in his will that certain of his bushmen friends should each receive a bottle of whisky, as a last mark of his affection and friendship – an understanding gesture which will never be forgotten in that country.’

C.T. MADIGAN, from Central Australia (1936)