PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION E. 293 
understood something of the Dieri language, which is near to the 
Yantruwunta tongue, and thus I was able to communicate with 
the blacks at Cooper’s Creek. When Frank left me I got a 
Dieri boy from Blanchwater, who understood English as the 
blacks spoke it at that frontier station. From these two boys 
I was able to pick up a good deal of the language, and I added 
to it by constant practice with the Yantruwunta. Thus I was 
able to explain much information about the geography of the 
Barcoo Delta, and even about the country north of Sturt’s 
stony desert, on what is now called the Everard or the Lower 
Diamantia. 
Amongst other matters about which I inquired was as to the 
place where Gray was buried, and I was told it was at a place 
called Andaginni, where one of the “ warugati wiltfella” (qa), 
that is, Burke’s party, was buried by his companions, and where 
also “whilpra pinnaru” (0), that is, M‘Kinlay, fought with the 
blacks. My informants pointed in a north-westerly direction for 
Andaginni, and said that it was about four days’ journey, or, as I 
_ estimated it, from 60 to 70 miles distant. At that time I was 
not aware of M‘Kinlay’s account of his being attacked at Mas- 
sacre Lake, but when I read it, and of his discovery of human 
remains there, I felt no doubt that it was the body of Gray that 
he had found. 
I have quoted the essential parts of Wills’ diary, Burke’s notes, 
and King’s evidence, which have a bearing upon the death of 
Gray, and on the identification of the place where he was buried. 
I now add particulars, which I find in John M‘Kinlay’s Journal 
(c), as to his visit to Massacre Lake, and other extracts which 
seem necessary to place the whole matter in a clear light. 
He started from Adelaide on the 16th of August, 1861, as 
leader of the Burke Relief Expedition, and arrived at Blanch- 
water, the then furthest out cattle station, on the 22nd Septem- 
ber (d). A few days before arriving there he was informed that 
natives had brought in a report of * some white men and camels 
being seen at some inland water by them, or rather by others 
of the Pandoo, or Lake Hope, tribe. From Lake Hope he went 
forward, and finally formed a depot at another lake some 50 or 
60 miles to the north, which he called Lake Buchanan. In ad- 
dition to the white men who formed his party, he had the before- 
(2) From Warugatti, meaning Emu, but applied by the blacks to the camel, for which 
they had naturally no name 
(>) The word ‘‘ whilpra’” is a corruption of wheelbarrow, which was applied at that 
time on the frontier stations to a cart or dray, and was attached to M‘Kinlay because he 
had a dray with him, the name being passed on from the blacks at the frontier to the 
wild tribes further out. Pinnaru means elder or headman. 
(c) Printed by the order of the House of Assembly of South Australia, 9th of October, 
1862. 
(d) The journal does not give the date of his arrival at Blanchwater, but says that he 
left it on the 24th of September. Mr. Frank James, who was the manager at Klanch- 
water at that time, informs me that M‘Kinlay only remained one day there. He must, 
therefore, have arrived there on 22nd September. 
