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mentioned black boy Frank, whom he picked up at a station 
further down the country. He also had two blacks from Blanch- 
water, who, however, ran away from him at Lake Hope, where he 
obtained a Dieri black named Bullingani. This man was sub- 
sequently with me as a guide, but ran away in the night with 
some of my things. 
On 29th October M‘Kinlay, having formed his depot camp at 
a place called Wantula, at the outlet of Lake Buchanan, started 
in search of the waters at which the white men were supposed to 
be, taking with him two of his party, Hodgkinson and Middle- 
ton, and the blackfellow Bullingani, who, he says, “seemed to 
say that he knows something of the whites.’ M*‘Kinlay then 
says that Bullingani told him that the natives whom they saw at 
a place called Moolionthurunie (ce), had murdered the white men 
they were looking for. That night they reached a place called 
by Bullingani, Kadhai-baerri, and which M: Kinlay renamed 
Massacre Lake. He then describes the finding of a grave in 
which there were the bones of a white man, enveloped in a flannel 
shirt. The blackfellow (f) said that this man was killed by the 
natives, who surprised the party, and that his companions buried 
him, but after they left the blacks dug up the body and ate the 
muscular parts. M‘Kinlay says that they found a second grave 
evidently dug with a spade or shovel, and a lot of human hair of 
two colours, but found in it no other remains excepting one little 
bone. They also found a pint pot and a tin canteen in a native 
camp. 
On the following morning M‘Kinlay rode after and caught 
a local native called Kerikeri, who, according to Bullingani, 
was one of the murderers. This man took them to a camp, 
where he dug up a quantity of baked horsehair for saddle- 
stuffing, and told them that “the saddle was burned, the iron- 
work kept, and the other bodies eaten.” Also that there was “a 
pistol at a creek to the north-east,” which M‘Kinlay sent him to 
fetch. He said further that there was a rifle or gun at the lake 
last passed, with other articles, and finally he displayed on his 
body, before and behind, the marks of ball and shot wounds now 
quite healed, which had so disabled him that he had to be carried 
about for some considerable time (q). 
M‘Kinlay says that the following morning, just as they were 
getting up, and not very clear yet, forty blacks came, headed by 
Kerikeri, bearing torches, shields, &e. (sic), and endeavouring 
to surround them. As they did not retire when he ordered them 
© Apparently the lake shown upon the maps as Moolionburrinna, between Lake 
M‘Kinlay and Massacre Lake. 
(f/) The context seems to show that this refers to Bullingani. 
(7) At this time there was cattle-killing at the outside stations by blacks who came in 
from the back country, and I think that Kerikeri had been engaged in some such an 
expedition, and carried with him the permanent evidence of the manner in which such 
raids were met by the whites. Kerikeri must have been a Yaurorka, and these people 
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