56 ROBERT POCOCK. 



He therefore appears in his native country as a neglected 

 alien. His pamphlet says he has had a ' liberal' 

 education ; but here it is wrong, as the word should 

 have been ' common ;* for upon my asking him to read 

 the title of a Botany Bay newspaper, he did it with 

 difficulty. He has a fine pair of lips, good eyes, and 

 if he had not been so much tattooed he would have been 

 a very likely man. He is about five feet eight inches 

 high, thinly made, and has lost two fingers. Mr. 

 Grafter called with the drawing of the eighteenpence 

 piece. 



" Wednesday, December 4>th. Read the Medical 

 Journal published this month, and pleased with the 

 abstract of Mr. Lambert's ' Notes on Botany ' from the 

 MSS. of Peter Collinson. Afternoon fine, with large 

 white rocky clouds on azure sky ; starlight evening 

 Between six and seven viewed comet, now to the 

 southward of bright star in Aquila, at one-third dis- 

 tance of either two stars in it. It appears very faint, 

 its tail not longer than the three stars of Aquila. 



" Thursday, December bth. Out of temper, had 

 tea, instead of a dinner off a very fine hare sent by 

 Mr. R. H. yesterday. 



" Friday, December 6th. My wife affronted me. Went 

 to Greenhithe. Heard that the Poet of Greenhithe 

 was the Rev. Mr. Bradley. This gentleman has pro- 

 duced some excellent pieces of poetry. 



" Saturday, December 7th. In the dolldrums all day. 

 The New Zealander called for his pamphlet. 



"Sunday, December Sth. Taken at night with a 

 violent shiver attended with fever, certainly owing to 

 standing still in the damp. 



" Wednesday, December llth. Paid a poor cess of one 



