they continued to travel north, beyond the site of the town of tennant creek. on 26 june they reached a creek, now called attack creek, about north of adelaide. a large group of aborigines from a group called the warramunga, attacked the explorers. the warrumunga threw boomerangs at the explorers, and then set fire to the grass. stuart and his men fired their guns at the warrumunga, but stuart does not say in his diary if any were killed or injured. the men quickly left the creek and went south.