CH. I.] THE EXPEDITION. 17 



the survey of the coast, and having become, in consequence, 

 ill from scurvy, he made application to me to be employed 

 onshore. The justness of his request, and the services he 

 had performed, prepossessed me in his favour, and I never 

 afterwards had occasion to change my good opinion of him. 



John Palmer was a sailmaker as well as a sailor, and both 

 he and Jones had been on board a man-of-war, and were 

 very handy fellows. 



Worthington was a strong youth, recently arrived from 

 Nottingham. He was nicknamed by his comrades " Five 

 o'clock," from his having, on the outset of the journey, dis- 

 turbed them by insisting that the hour was five o'clock soon 

 after midnight, from his eagerness to be ready in time in the 

 morning. 



I never saw Souter's diploma, but his experience and skill 

 in surgery were sufficient to satisfy us, and to acquire for him 

 from the men the appellation of " Doctor." 



Robert Muirhead had been a soldier in India, and banished, 

 for some mutiny, to New South Wales ; where his steady 

 conduct had obtained for him an excellent character. 



Delaney and Foreham were experienced men in driving- 

 cattle. 



Joseph Jones, originally a London groom, I had always 

 found intelligent and trust-worthy. 



Bombelli could shoe horses, and was afterwards trans- 

 ferred to my service by Mr. Sempill in lieu of a very tur- 

 bulent character, whom I left behind, and who declared it 

 to be his firm determination to be hanged. 



Cussack had been a bog surveyor in Ireland ; he was an 

 honest creature, but had got somehow implicated in a charge 

 of administerino- unlawful oaths. 



Brown had been a soldier, and subsequently was assistant 

 coachman to the Marquis of , and 



Dawkins was an old tar — in whom Mr. White, himself 

 formerly an officer in the Indian navy, placed much confi- 

 dence. 



1 c 



