220 ‘A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY 
and the hill in question was always judged to be 
between six and seven miles from the ships. After 
we had pitched our tents, and got every thing that 
‘was on the cart down to them, we supped and lay 
down to rest until the evening, when we began to 
make preparations for resuming our journey. All 
the provisions, tents, and indeed every article of 
public property, were weighed, and equitably dis- 
tributed amongst the officers and men according 
to their supposed strength. I am sorry to say, 
however, that, notwithstanding the necessity there 
was on this occasion, for every person to take 
some share of the public burden, there was one 
amongst us who did not offer to carry a single 
article but his own private property; his name I 
forbear to mention, nor would I indeed notice the 
circumstance at all, were it not in justice to the 
rest of the party to say of them, that, instead of 
showing any inclination to imitate such a glaring 
instance of a want of public spirit, it appeared to 
stimulate them to emulate one another in their 
exertions. 
Monday, 12th. — We struck the tents at two 
o’clock this morning, every thing else that we 
intended to take with us being by this time packed 
up. What we left indeed were articles of very 
little use, such as empty canteens, and meat-cases, 
in which we used to carry water, and wash; some 
spare ammunition was also left, and a few other 
trifles which were deemed useless. The pole 
of the cart was set up against the side of a wall 
that we built yesterday to shelter the tents from 
the wind, and at the foot of this pole we deposited 
