one of them more boisterous than the others against parting with her land got a severe fall when grappled with her antagonists on a stump of a tree and lay in a state of insensibility for some considerable time - after the pain had partially removed she said that she was not opposed to sell her land that her anger was vented and that she was more annoyed now with her party opposing the sale than with those in favour of it who she called her brothers sisters and near relatives; what a strange people and of what wonderful amalgamated materials are they composed. The meeting in the grove was continued till a very late hour when they went across to the Pa and slept & the young chief of Waitara remained with me