would soon die. Wondalta, Mulya and Kunga, who came back to get their skins, told them this news. The latter would also have scolded them for taking us.
April 6th, 1842.
Tunba and Ngulga came to me today, both denying that the latter was a murderer, although admitting that Yailyalta
The “Victoria” arrived today with Lieutenant Hugonin
April 18th, 1842.
This evening Innes came to me and told me that the expedition against the natives was starting tomorrow morning. In consequence of this message I went to Mr. Driver, who, together with Hugonin, asked me to join the party, partly as an interpreter, partly to denounce those natives who had had no part in the murder. Under these conditions I decided to go along.
April 19th, 1842.
At 9 o'clock in the morning the mounted party set out, accompanied by the two Mr. White, at whose request we rode along the coast to Talalla to see if there were any natives in that area, as White's people had told us. Incidentally, this detour was in vain and without stopping we set off for Biddle's Station, whose house and everything in it we found burnt by the natives.
Towards midday I rode with a policeman to Pillaworta, where [Mr.] Driver went with some people early in the morning to look for his oxen.
April 22nd, 1842.
Everyone returned from Pillaworta without having found the oxen, and the entire team moved to Palanna's headquarters. Not far from this place our guides found fresh tracks and advised us to move together and in silence in order to surprise the natives who might be in Palanna. Our natives were now sent ahead as scouts, who soon returned with the certain news that several natives were in Palanna. Immediately the soldiers were sent ahead to surround the natives, and the horsemen followed. But they heard us before we got near them and ran away.
April 23rd, 1842.
Riding in the direction of a fire which had been noticed by some on the Coffin Bay plain, we also found