my way to Happy Valley [I] met Yutalta, Tubultu, Kanyokalendi, Muwadna*, Palyanna* and Tyilye*, communicated to them my discovery and accused Ngulga* and Kanyokalendi of the theft; I then wanted to go back with them, worried that they would steal more new things in my absence. Meanwhile Yutalta said they wanted to go over the mountains to Port Lincoln, avoiding my house. I believed this approach and could not imagine that Yutalta would be such a cunning villain, despite my indignation at the theft of potatoes and my expressed fear that they would now take advantage of my absence and steal again, but still not intending anything less. When I returned, I found ( 080 ) some flour spilled and covered with loose earth in front of the door of the room that serves as my pantry and which could not be locked. On entering I found new tracks and my sack of flour lightened by 5 - 10 pounds, so that there was no doubt left that the natives I mentioned earlier had stolen from me. The following day,

June 17th, 1841.
it rained heavily. and no natives came further than Yaltubidni* on the 18th of June, and Munanabidi* with Dr. Harvey from Tananna, alone the next day the old people showed up again, led by the cunning Yutalta, whom I immediately took by the arm, showed him the traces described above and then pushed him out. He claims that Palyanna and Muwadna took the flour, but I was able to answer him why he didn't talk them out or prevent them, and, as much as he didn't want to go, he had to put up with being dismissed in a rather rude manner. Towards evening Murpa came and ate some rice with Yaltubidi and Munanabidi in my house, using my old broken spoons, which I immediately missed after they left.

June 19th, 1841.
When they returned the following morning, I accused Murpa of taking them, but he claimed that Yaltubidi had taken them. But not long afterwards he returned with one of them, and the third was found later, which Munanabidi had probably secretly returned. I hear that several women have seen Dr. Harvey, ( 081 ) and they were the reason for my supposedly first and almost dangerous appearance in the following way. Mrs. Harvey gave the women rusks in the presence of Murpa, who, jealous of the women's preference, snatched their gift from the latter. Mrs. Harvey tried to prevent him from doing so, but he pushed her so hard in the chest that she withdrew and shed tears of pain and shock. She told Dr. Harvey, what had happened, who took a stick and hit Murpa with it, whereupon he took his spear to aim and hit Dr. Harvey. Mrs. Harvey, perceiving this and thinking that the man was about to hurl the spear at her husband, jumped between them, began to scream, and raised both her hands to stop the spear. Dr. Harvey then came to McDonald and asked if he was allowed to shoot the man, to which he replied that he was allowed to do so in self-defense. I was subsequently told that Dr. Harvey changed his view of the incident and even denied that the man Murpa had aimed his spear at him. The probability of this whole thing seems to me to be that Murpa was indeed overly aggressive towards Mrs. Harvey, but that his threat to Harvey was either for fun, or at most for the purpose of what the latter intended with his stick. Several,