The next night, McMillan, awakened by a noise, found Jimmy Gibbu bending over him with a nulla-nulla in his hand.

Fortunately, McMillan's pistol was within easy reach, and, presenting it at Jimmy's head, he compelled him to drop the nulla-nulla, and to account for his suspicious attitude.

Jimmy confessed to a fear of the Warrigals, or wild blacks of that region, to acute home-sickness, and to a general unwillingness to proceed further.
McMillan examined the country he had found, and having judged it to be very desirable pastoral land, he returned home.

He then formed a new station for Mr.Macalister on some country he had found on the Tambo River, and went himself on another trip of discovery.

This time he had four companions with him, two friends named Cameron and Matthews, a stockman, and a black boy.