October 7th, 1840. [Date is repeated]
The next morning at three o'clock we set out from Newenham's Station(056), called Mr. Smith, who was spending the night with Mr. White, and then proceeded to the place, where the other party had spent the night. However, because of the darkness of the night and later because of the density of the fog, we were unable to find the way and considered ourselves lucky that we finally came to a well-used path that brought us back to White after being on the road for at least 4 hours in vain. Suspecting that the guilty natives had gone to Coffinbay, it was decided that all who had no horses should return to Port Lincoln, while Smith and McAllister(057), reinforced by White and Newenham, wanted to go on to the aforementioned bay the following day. I would have liked to go along and wanted to venture with the big horse that Smith declared unfit for this ride, but Edward Hawson(058) insisted and wanted to go himself, ( 025 ) so I gave up and returned to Port Lincoln with Mr. Barnad(059).

October 8th, 1840.
I wrote at Dr. Harvey's boat a letter to be sent to the brothers in Adelaide, in which I informed them of the murder that had occurred. While I was still doing this, at six o'clock in the evening, young Smith came to me with the news that nine natives had arrived at the settlement. Shortly afterwards one of the policemen came with the same message and I immediately went to see her. They were all grown men, camped under a tent in front of Jones'(060) house. It was already dark, so I couldn't really see them, but by the light of the fire I noticed that some of them were quite old, that they were trimmed, had long beards, the tips of which were tied together in a braid and wrapped in gray fur, and that none of them had a shred of clothing on them. I spoke to her in the Adelaide language, but could not make myself understood. One of them, Boby(061), spoke a bit of English and asked me my name, and almost all of them told me their original names. I found the following words among them, which are also used by the natives in Adelaide: Yurre - ear; Mena - eye; mudla - nose; Metye - name; Ngai - I; (Ngaitye - mine?) Winniwinni - go away.

( 026 ) The word Kaitya seemed to me to mean child (Tukatya) because someone asked me whether Gottfried was my son and used this word. If so, then he took Gottfried in his stead. I invited the most talkative one to come to me, but he indicated to me that he was tired and would come tomorrow, at the same time indicating his wish that I would like to go away so that he could sleep. This wish also seemed to extend to the others present, as there were several others there besides the police. After a good half hour I went back home, happy about the opportunity that now presented itself to me to establish contact with the natives.

October 9th, 1840.
Immediately after breakfast I went back to the native camp, but how astonished I was to find none there, and to hear from Jones and his wife that the police had treated them shamefully and cruelly in trying to put them in prison. From there I