these terms only he would
go:--"That Mr. Burke should give him a written agreement that he,
Mr. L., should have full and unqualified charge of the camels, and
that from that time Mr. B. should not interfere with them in any
way; that they should travel no further nor faster than Mr. L.
chose, and that he should be allowed to carry provisions for them
to the amount of four camels' burthen." Just after this, Mr. B.
came up and called Mr. L. aside, and, as the former told me, read
to him a letter that he had written to accompany the resignation.
The contents of this letter had a considerable effect on Mr. L.,
who said that it was a pity they should have had any quarrel, and
so acted on Mr. B.'s feelings, that he allowed him to withdraw his
resignation. I believe that the information which had arrived about
a steamer being on its way up the river had had a great influence
in making Mr. Landells desirous to withdraw his resignation; but
the chief reason was, no doubt, that he feared, from the concluding
sentence of Mr. Burke's letter, that the committee would refuse him
his pay.

After this, everything appeared to be healed for a day or two; but
on Wednesday, from various matters that had occurred, I considered
it my duty to mention to Mr. Burke about Hodgkinson and some things
that Mr. Landells had said to me; whereupon it came out that Mr. L.
had been playing a fine game, trying to set us all together by the
ears. To Mr. Burke he has been abusing and finding fault with all
of us; so much so, that Mr. B. tells me that Landells positively
hates me. We have, apparently, been the best of friends. To me, he
has been abusing Mr. Burke, and has always spoken as if he hated
the Doctor and Mr. Becker; whereas with them he has been all milk
and honey. There is scarcely a man in the party whom he has not
urged Mr. Burke to dismiss.

Mr. Burke went ahead with the horses from Bilbarka, partly because
he wanted to be here sooner than the rest, and partly in order to
avoid a collision with Mr. Landells. He asked Dr. Beckler to
accompany him, for we both expected that Mr. Landells would be
tampering with him, as we found he had been with others; but the
Doctor said that he preferred going with the camels, so that after
the first day, when we found that Dr. Beckler would not go on with
the horses, Mr. Burke took Mr. Becker and myself with him. We
crossed the horses at a very good crossing at Kinchica, six miles
below Menindie. Mr. Bur