(i) & put them on their guard; but Moolligunn had informed them previously. McC was also employed making cartridge pouches which I had cut out. The natives were also very anxious to know where every person was; & watched me from the top of a hill; & sent a boy with one spear to the house; which I have no doubt was meant for Tucker, if he gave them a chance to use it.
AUG. 25.
Returned home, shortly after which Jacky (native) told Albert that the natives were sulky on the 23rd, & were playing with their spears, merely as a ruse to get them down in the flat unarmed, when they would have made an attack on them. I believe what he said, & had told them to be on their guard, what they (the blacks) intended on the 23rd.
AUG. 26.
Mc employed the sane; & self helping him & in garden.
AUG. 27.
McC making cap pouches. Tucker & self cutting grass & attending to garden. Albert brought in all the horses & cattle and went down to Ws.
AUG. 28.
Sunday. I went up the river to see the bullocks; & what the blacks were about. When I returned McC went to Ws to shoe Bobby and Captain next morning.
AUG. 29.
Albert returned (with the cattle) McCourt also, self at work
