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At Rockhampton she was nearly drowned in securing 
some blue water-lilies, being rescued by some blacks, who 
pushed a small canoe through the rushes, waving fire- 
sticks. After that she suffered from intermittent fever. 
Before she had recovered her little hut of bamboos and 
palm-leaves was burnt down. All her precious collections 
find all her equipment were destroyed. This stopped all 
her work, but probably the rest was needed. A German 
family took her in, but did. not like her having live snakes 
and lizards in her room. Godeffrov wrote sympathising 
about ttm loss of the collections, and replaced all the equip- 
ment. TTe desired skeletons of the larger mammals, and as 
many skeletons and skulls of the aboriginals as possible, as 
well as weapons and implements. 
Tn January. 1^89 we find her in Mackav. There she 
watches from a hiding place an inter-tribal fight of the 
aborigines, and gives a description of it. She does much 
bartering wjth them. She discovers and preserves a bower 
and the birds that made it. From there she accompanied 
a bullock team inland to Lake Elphinstone, an eleven 
months’ trip. After her return to Mackav she started a 
caterpillar farm in order to obtain perfect specimens of 
the large butterflies. In September of the same year she 
writes from Bowen. Here again she got into close relations 
with the natives. Skeletons were hard to get. but she ship- 
ped home thirteen and several skulls. Then to Port Deni- 
son and from there in a canoe accompanied by two assis- 
tants to the Holborn Islands to collect the wonderful fishes 
of the coral reef and other marine material. 
She returned to Brisbane to fill up some gaps in her 
previous collecting. In 1871 she was in Melbourne, where 
she called on Baron von Meuller, on her way to the Tonga 
Is.. After collecting there she rounded the Horn and re- 
joined her daughter at Hamburg in March, 1873, after an 
absence of ten years. 
The long hard road had been traversed and left tri- 
umphantly behind. Godeffroy provided here with a suite 
of rooms in his great house, and for thirteen years she 
worked in the Godeffroy Museum. After his death she re- 
ceived a post at the Botanical Museum under the Munici- 
pality. She had a wide circle of friends of every class, and 
often visited her daughter, who had become the wife of 
a pastor. There she played with a lively little boy, her 
grandchild. She was honoured in her own country/ In 
the world of science botanists will remember her by Acacia 
Dietrichiana and Bonamia Dietrichiana, hymenopterists by 
Nortonia Amaliae and Odynerus Dietrichianus, Monumen- 
tum aere perennius. A memorial more lasting than brass. 
