We carefully collected the remains and interred them where
they lay; and, not having a prayer-book, I read chapter 15 of 1
Corinthians, that we might at least feel a melancholy satisfaction
in having shown the last respect to his remains. We heaped sand
over the grave, and laid branches upon it, that the natives might
understand by their own tokens not to disturb the last repose of a
fellow-being. I cut the following inscription on a tree close by,
to mark the spot:--
W.J.WILLS,
XLV. YDS.
W.N.W.
A.H.
(W. J. WILLS, 45 yards, west-north-west. A.H.)
The field-books, a note-book belonging to Mr. Burke, various
small articles lying about, of no value in themselves, but now
invested with a deep interest, from the circumstances connected
with them, and some of the nardoo seed on which they had subsisted,
with the small wooden trough in which it had been cleaned, I have
now in my possession.
September 21st.--Finding that it would not be prudent for King to
go out for two or three days, I could no longer defer making a
search for the spot where Mr. Burke died, and with such directions
as King could give, I went up to the creek this morning with
Messrs.
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