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 went to Dr. Harvey, who agreed with young Scott(062), said that the natives were all bloody from the wounds inflicted on them by the police, and that they were crying like children. A police officer ( 027 ) came to him with the news that the natives were getting impatient and wanted to leave, to which he replied that he would come straight away and that they should just hold them off for a moment. But when he arrived a short time later, with a basket full of biscuits in his arms, the poor people had already been put into the underground dungeon, which he then opened, distributed the biscuits among the natives and then let them go. I wrote a brief account of this incident to Mr. Moorhouse at Dr. Harvey's house, with instructions to tell the Governor that I would hardly remain here unless the government redressed the wrong or protected me in my dealings with the natives.

In the afternoon I visited poor young Hawson, urged him to forgive the natives, reminding him of the fifth petition in the Lord's Prayer, and spoke to Mrs. Hawson about the rumor I had heard that her son Edward had shot at the blacks, repeating to her the words he used. I went to Dr. Harvey invited to tea; While I was there, young White came in with the news that they had repeatedly seen fresh tracks on the way to Coffin Bay, but no natives; and ( 028 ) that on the 7th, shortly after our return and while he and the rest of the travelers were visiting Mr. Bennet(063), they were at his station, accompanied by women and children and armed with spears.

Mr. Poole(064), who was alone at home in the meantime, was not a little frightened and did not dare to leave the house, although the natives tried to lure him out. Mr. White invited me to spend a few days with him because it was likely that the natives would visit him; I therefore decided to go to him tomorrow at 10 o'clock in the morning.

October 10th, 1840.
At the appointed time I found myself with Dr. Harvey entered, but heard that there was to be an inquest at eleven o'clock into his conduct in the release of the natives, which Mr White would probably attend, and to which I therefore called Dr. Harvey accompanied. The investigation was directed against Hanlon(065) and only at the end did the magistrate mention Dr. Harvey's behavior in very harsh terms. He admitted that he had done wrong under the law, defended himself as best he could, and the session was over.

It was not until 4 o'clock in the afternoon that White, Newenham and Bennet and me set off for the first Station, and arrived there at about 10 o'clock in the evening,