214 ASSAILED BY FEVER. 



course I know the way, but it's out of our line, gov'nor 

 that's a fact." 



" It does not happen to be in any way out of my line, 

 so if you know the way set the mules' heads for it at 

 once," I replied, " and no two ways about it ;" and Mr 

 Canterall then went to inquire the route, of which I saw 

 that, as usual, he was profoundly ignorant. 



The fever which had been trying to lay hold of me 

 began then to make itself felt ; great lassitude assailed me, 

 and my gun became heavy to my hand, so much so that 

 I confined myself, after the cool of the morning had pass 

 ed, to my ambulance waggon, which, when I was in it, I 

 generally drove myself. While on this portion of my 

 journey, and when occupied with Chance picking up a 

 few grouse, in one of the boggy dells in the track which 

 so frequently occur on the plains, I again saw an emigrant 

 waggon stuck fast, and while several men with horses and 

 mules were endeavouring to rescue their goods from that 

 position, from the distance I beheld my men cross the bog 

 a little on one side of them, and continue on their way, 

 without any further notice whatever; but that of having 

 made the difficulty of their countrymen serve to guide them 

 from a similar danger. My waggons were so far ahead of 

 me that in the state of lassitude in which I was I could not 

 attempt to overtake and stop them, but on reaching the 

 party in the slough I told them that I deeply regretted the 

 incivility of my men, and that had I been there every 

 mule and man I had should have assisted in the liberation. 

 Among the people was one who seemed more intelligent 

 than the rest, when, having surveyed me a moment, he 

 said, " Are you the English lord that's come a hunting 

 to our plains, Lord Berkeley, as I read on in the papers?" 



I replied, " My name is Berkeley, and I am from 



