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sawn, the odor is delightful. Vessels arrive and 

 depart from here at stated intervals, carrying lumber 

 to Adelaide ; tliej only take the mahogany, which 

 is used for sleepers to the railway in process of 

 construction there. These crafts carry passengers, 

 whom, for the passage of about fifteen hundred 

 miles, they charge the extortionate price often pounds 

 a head ; but there is no competition, and, therefore, 

 they have it all their own way. The crafts are small, 

 mostly rigged as brigs of about one hundred and 

 twenty-five tons measurement. 



As in all other settlements on this coast, the rum- 

 sellers drive a thriving trade, although here there are 

 not so many of them, there being but two depots for 

 the sale of spirits in the town. One of them holds 

 forth in a neat brick building, which, they told me, 

 cost two thousand pounds sterling to erect. At home 

 the same description of building would have cost 

 about one hundred pounds, or five hundred dollars. 

 As everybody here drinks, they think it hospitable 

 to greet the stranger with " What will you take ?" 

 and consequently our fellows, many of whom never 

 rejected such ofl'ers, were alive for fun — and I will 

 guarantee that the denizens of Bunbury will, for 

 many a day, remember the skylarking of the Pacific's 

 crew. One, after getting pretty well elevated, took 

 our two Portuguese up to the school, and insisted on 

 the preceptor's entering their names on his list of 

 pupils. 



During my visit ashore I went through the town 

 from beginning to end, and by invitation entered 

 most of the houses. In the garden of one I was shown 

 a young kangaroo, leaping and gambolling about in 



