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 either on the same day or on Sunday Barnard's and Harvey's from the valley between Happy Valley and the city. Yutalta was also seen with my potatoes late last night.

June 29th, 1841.
This morning Kanyokalendi tried to escape under the pretext that he had a natural need to satisfy. But the policeman soon caught up with him and, as the natives said, is said to have hit him; at least he seemed safe, so that our other natives began to cry, fearing that Kanyokalendi's life was in danger. Although they calmed down when I told them that he would not be killed, ( 085 ) but perhaps he would be beaten, to which they replied that we always want to beat him, they nevertheless immediately left secretly, probably because one or the other of them was aware of their guilt and feared that they would also be arrested. Muwadna, whom Kanyokalendi claimed was the thief, had already run away last night. When the investigation was going on, I had to act as interpreter for two parties, namely Gottfried and Kayokalendi, but the investigation did not last long, as the latter was immediately dismissed after Gottfried's interrogation. He stayed with me throughout the day and maintained that it was not he who stole the things, but Nunyalta* and Muwadna; in collection bag of the first there were actually stolen potatoes, which seem to have belonged to Rush. Towards the evening Ngulga came along and denied the accusation of stealing potatoes from me last Saturday.