 Macquarie's aide, Major Antill, also remarked positively of the Wiradjuri, writing in his journal "They appear to be a harmless and inoffensive race, with nothing forbidding or ferocious in their countenance ...They were perfectly mild and cheerful, and laugh at everything they see and repeat everything they hear".Macquarie then spent a week touring the surrounding area, meeting with a number of the other indigenous inhabitants.