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back, he gave orders to fire on them, “seeing nothing left but 
to be butchered themselves.” Several rounds were fired before 
they left, but he says that he was “afraid that the messenger, 
the greatest vagabond of the lot, escaped scot free.” This appears 
to refer to Kerikeri. 
Such, then, is the information which I have been able to 
collect as to the death of Gray and the place of his burial. It 
may be accepted as settled that Gray died and was buried at a 
place called Andaginni, and that Andaginni and Massacre Lake 
are the same place (i). The camel pads stuffed with horsehair, 
the tin pot, and other things left behind by Burke at Gray’s 
erave, appear to account for the baked horsehair dug out by 
Kerikeri, and for the pint pot and the tin canteen found by 
M‘Kinlay. Fragments of paper, pieces of a nautical almanac, 
and an exploded Ely cartridge picked up near to where there was 
“the dung of camels and horses, which had been tied up a long 
time ago,’ 1s strong evidence that the spot was the one where 
Burke camped. The distance from Cooper’s Creek, as given by 
King, is approximately correct, assuming that the position of 
Massacre Lake on M‘Kinlay’s map can be depended on. 
But the second grave which M‘Kinlay says was dug with a 
spade or shovel is difficult to account for, unless one considers 
that it was the original grave in which Gray was buried, but in 
that case one must accept the further conclusion that the body 
was dug up and the skeleton reburied in another grave. Sucha 
conclusion would suggest that the blacks had eaten the flesh and 
reburied the bones. 
The facts, as we can see them, show that the circumstantial ac- 
count given by M’Kinlay of the killing of a white man, or a party 
of white men by the blacks, on the authority of statements made 
to him by Bullingani and Kerikeri, is not founded on fact. .This 
has pressed upon me eyer since I first read M‘Kinlay’s journal, 
and for the following reasons. 
Bullingani, when I first knew him some months after this 
time, knew no English, and Kerikeri must have been equally 
ignorant of it. Moreover, M‘Kinlay did not speak Dieri or 
Yaurorka. Frank could not have acquired much of the Dieri 
tongue, because he only entered the Dieri country about a month 
before, and, besides, he was not. with the party at Massacre Lake. 
The other two blacks from Blanchwater deserted M‘Kinlay at 
Lake Hope. The absence of any means of communication with 
those wild blacks that M‘Kinlay had to do with is brought out 
clearly by certain passages in his journal. On 26th October, 
that is, after he returned to the depét from Massacre Lake, he 
writes that he “will send Mr. Hodgkinson with others of the 
party to the settlements to procure additional stores’ and “to 
procure a native who can speak the language of the natives at 
(7) The name is mentioned in M‘Kinlay’s Journal as Undaginee. 
