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As a result of this unrest there was a marked cooling-off in cordiality amongst the visitors to Yerandawana when plague broke out again in the city, and the annual exodus took place. The deportation to a distance of one of the leaders on the side of discontent in the city, for a period of some years, was the chief ground of local resentment.
Apparently every visitor to any garden must be made to take away some tangible memento of his visit, if it be only a single flower. One of the leading farmers in Yerandawana was, from the first, very adverse to the intrusion of the Mission into the village.
Some natives complained that amongst the many English officers in gorgeous uniform it was not always possible to distinguish for certain which was the King. Not unfrequently large bodies of troops come past the Mission compound in Yerandawana village on their way to the hilly country beyond, which provides an ideal area for military tactics.
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