I forgot to mention also that about Friday or Saturday Van Leeuwen discovered that his boy**not a convict one he brought from his home-- {F3.25} had been stealing alcohol and sugar from him. It was two or three liters of alcohol and he had him arrested. He was brought before Posthumus and according to what little we hear of it he gave it to the soldiers. Many soldiers were brought up and questioned. He is a prisoner and a soldier stands guard over him with a huge drawn sabre. The chap who is probably guilty but who also did it probably on the urging of the soldiers is very little and bashful and it looks funny to see a large soldier follow him through the water with his sword drawn. We have called him the camp bootlegger. They had three or four hearings which Posthumus held and wrote down statements in a large black book. He is going to be sent back to Ambon but not made a prisoner there because of the soldier angle. Two Dyaks are with us in camp. One is sick, and the other is for the returning transport. Dick went hunting this morning and was in hopes of getting his crockadile [sic] which he spotted yesterday on a bar in the river which are [sic, = is] starting to reappear. He had two shots at him, missed him the first time but got him the second. He was too far away, however, and could [not] recover him. He then went down the river and returned with a large white cockadoo [sic] and a brown and red one. We can see one little hump in the direction of Head Camp but the rest of the ranges are hidden by clouds all morning. The sun has failed to shine today so the camp is still wet and muddy. We had the cockadoo [sic] for dinner. It was not bad eating at all. It rained again last evening.
