A few days after Mr. Wills left, some natives came down the creek to fish at some waterholes near our camp.  They were very civil to us at first and offered us some fish.  On the second day they came again to fish, and Mr. Burke took down two bags, which they filled for him.  On the third day they gave us one bag of fish, and afterwards all came to our camp.  We used to keep our ammunition and other articles in one gunyah, and all three of us lived together in another.  One of the natives took an oilcloth out of this gunyah, and Mr. Burke seeing him run away with it followed him with his revolver and fired over his head, and upon this the native dropt the oilcloth; while he was away, the other blacks invited me away to a waterhole to eat fish, but I declined to do so as Mr. Burke was absent, and a number of natives were about who would have taken all our things.  When I refused, one took his boomerang and laid it over my shoulder, and then told me by signs that if I called out for Mr. Burke (as I was doing) that he would strike me; upon this I got them all in front of the gunyah and fired a revolver over their heads, but they did not seem at all afraid until I got out the gun, when they all ran away.  Mr. Burke hearing the report came back, and we saw no more of them until late that night, when they came with some cooked fish and called out “white fellow.”  Mr. Burke then went out with his revolver, and found a whole tribe coming down, all painted, and with fish in small nets carried by two men.  Mr. Burke went to meet them, and they wished to surround him; but he knocked as many of the nets of fish out of their hands as he could, and shouted out to me to fire.  I did so, and they ran off.  We collected five small nets of cooked fish.  The reason he would not accept the fish from them was, that he was afraid of being too friendly lest they should be always at our camp.  We then lived on fish until Mr. Wills returned.  He told us that he had met the natives soon after leaving us, and that they were very kind to him, and had given him plenty to eat both on going up and returning.  He seemed to consider that he should have very little difficulty in living with them, and as their camp was close to ours he returned to them the same day and found them very hospitable and friendly, keeping him with them two days.  They then made signs to him to be off:  he came to us and narrated what had happened, but went back to them the following day, when they gave him his breakfast, but made signs for him to go away; he pretended not to understand them, and would not go, upon which they made signs that they were going up the creek, and that he had better go down:  they packed up and left the camp, giving Mr. Wills a little nardoo to take to us.