stance through a forest we go.

Then along another river away, away; we cross the river; away, a short
distance away. At Neergammy we sleep, raising huts.

The others continue returning; we go away, away: in the forest we see no
water; we see no footsteps; we see some papers, the papers put by Mr.
Mortimer we see: still we go onwards, along the sea away, along the sea
away, along the sea away: through the bush away, through the bush away:
then along the sea away, along the sea away. We see white men--three of
them we see; they cry out, "Where is water;" water we give them--brandy
and water we give them. We sleep near the sea.

Away, away go we (I, Mr. Roe, and Kinchela) along the shore away, along
the shore away, along the shore away. We see no fresh water; along the
shore away, along the shore away. We see a paper, the paper of Mortimer
and Spofforth. Away we go, away, away, along the shore away, away, away,
a long distance we go. I see Mr. Smith's footsteps ascending a sandhill,
onwards I go regarding his footsteps. I see Mr. Smith dead. We commence
digging the earth.

Two sleeps had he been dead; greatly did I weep, and much I grieved. In
his blanket folding him, we scraped away the earth.

We scrape earth into the grave, we scrape the earth into the grave, a
little wood we place in it. Much earth we heap upon it, much earth we
throw up. No dogs can dig there, so much earth we throw up. The sun had
just inclined to the westward as we laid him in the ground.

...

The following are extracts from a journal kept by me whilst resident at
King George's Sound.

ROBBERY BY PEERAT'S WIVES. TRANSACTIONS WITH THE NATIVES IN A CASE OF
POTATO STEALING.

Thursday January 23.

Directly after breakfast a soldier came to me with a complaint that the
natives had last night robbed his garden in the settlement of nearly one
hundred weight of potatoes; I was determined to have here no repetition
of scenes similar to what had recently taken place; and therefore
resolved to act promptly and vigorously upon this first offence.

My first object was, in my punishment, not to involve the innocent and
guilty together, which is too often done by the Europeans in these
colonies.

I therefore got hold of an intelligent native of the name of Moyee-e-nan,
and, accompanied by him, visited the garden whence the potatoes had been
stolen; he found the tracks of three natives and, availing himself of the
faculty which they possess of tell