arrested with my full consent, although McDonald said in advance that there was not sufficient evidence against him to send him to Adelaide, but that he wanted to have him arrested that night to frighten the natives a little. And of course that was very necessary, because they take thievery to such a high degree that I feared worse consequences for the blacks themselves. On Saturday evening they also stole almost all of mine and some of Neander's potatoes from Happy Valley, and also cut off the curvature of the coast. McEllister, however, soon ran out of patience again; He wanted to go further backwards and when he found us little inclined to do so, and we also came across a lake which he thought was an arm of the bay that we had to go around, he suddenly rode back at full gallop with Ngulga, who also wanted to go back because he did not feel comfortable on the unfamiliar ground. We had no choice but to follow him; only when we heard that the body of water we saw was a lake did he allow himself to move forward again. After a sharp ride of about two hours, we saw the ships, camped for a short time to rest our horses and enjoy ourselves a little, and then rode mostly at a gallop to our destination. We were there at about four o'clock ( 089 ) and fortunately met a boat with its crew on land, so that after we had watered our horses and led them out to pasture, we were able to board the "Pallas" straight away. The Capitain of this ship was an American, and did not seem very affable; but he gave us supper, and then sent us ashore again to fetch on board those who had been left with the horses, for whom he seemed to have some concern about the natives. He said he didn't like the indigenous people, that they had stolen clothes from them and were very inclined to throw stones, which meant that they were not on very friendly terms with him. By the way, it turned out here that Yuramunko* not only misled us, but also that we did not fully understand him, since the boats sail every day to the opposite coast and often put people on the heights to watch for whales. Before we went ashore, we visited the Capitain of the other ship "Meuse", a Frenchman, who welcomed us very kindly and immediately invited us to stay overnight. Meanwhile McEllister and me went ashore in the boat to bring our native companions something to eat and ( 090 ) to look after our horses. The evening was spent in conversation, the tone of which we sometimes didn't like, especially when it came to Barnett, who seemed to have indulged a little too much in the abundant Coniac [Cognac] that was on offer. We slept, excluding the latter, in the Capitain's cabin.

July 12th, 1841.
The following day at about 11 o'clock we went ashore, accompanied by the Capitain and Doctor, with plenty of provisions for ourselves and our black companions, said goodbye to our friends, saddled up and rode back that same day to Ngaaralatta, where we had been camped the night of the 10th to the 11th of July. We came across two different native camps, in the first of which we met our old acquaintance Mungalta, who behaved very friendly. They were roughly the same people we had seen the day before in Nganki, also without wives and children, who seemed to have hidden again. They had a large quantity of fish, mainly salmon, of which they offered us plenty. They sent two spies after us again for the night. Not far from our campsite on this side of Nganki, we came across the