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M^rs Burns on no account
to allow Blacks to enter the
hut, when she replied that
she and her husband "were"
"old hands, and knew better"
"Than to let any strange"
"Blacks enter the door".

6. By the time I had seen
the bodies decently interred,
it was eleven o'clock, and,
anxious to lose no time, I
started on the track of the
murderers. In the first
ten miles the track was
covered with articles which
they had taken from the
hut, and at one place
where they had rested for
a short time I found
Burns' ration book.

7. It had been arranged
between L^t [Lieutenant] Fulford and
myself that we should
form two parties in
pursuit, in case the
Blacks had left the scene
of the murder in more
than