I do not kill your kangaroos or take your fish." The old man was certainly much annoyed, and went out of the tent to our fire, at which there were several natives with whom he had an earnest conversation; this terminated by two of them starting for the Darling, from whence, on the following day, they brought back the flag and staff, which they said had been taken by three of the Darling natives as they had stated already.

Probably such was the case, and we admitted the excuse.
The base line was completed on the 19th, and measured six miles.

I was anxious to have made it of greater length, but the ground would not admit of it.

The angles were necessarily very acute; but the bearings were frequently repeated, and found to agree.

I was the less anxious on the point because my intention was to check any error by another line as soon as I could.
The position we had taken up was a very favourable one, since being on the right or northern bank of the creek, we were, by the flooding of the lake, cut off from the Darling natives.