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TIL Alfred Canning surveyed the 1900km Canning Stock Route through the Western Australian desert by capturing and chaining Indigenous people and force feeding them salt - coercing them to show the survey party the way to water. A Royal Commission exonerated the survey party of any wrongdoing.

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