274 MEMOIR OF BR. HARVEY. 



distant, I take my meals, and who is an excellent cook, feeding 

 me with dainties every day. Her husband is a baker by trade, 

 so we have good bread, and her daughter makes nice sponge- 

 cakes for my tea. There is no milk, however, as cows will not 

 live on the island, the land being poisoned ; neither will goats 

 thrive. 



July 17th. At Freemantle. 

 We crossed from Eottenest safely on the 2nd, since which 

 time I have found considerable novelties. My list of species is 

 now 290, and I have dried nearly 10,000 specimens, not bad 

 work. I return to Albany towards the end of this month, and 

 intend to sail from thence for Melbourne. 



Dr. Harvey had now nearly completed the first year of his 

 projected travels, and with the exception of being somewhat dis- 

 couraged and out of spirits at Trincomalee, the course of events 

 had flowed smoothly, and he had met with little to interrupt his 

 enjoyment. But a sharp sorrow awaited him at Melbourne, 

 which for a time occupied the place of every other thought. 

 One of his cousins, a young man of promise, who had left home 

 for the colony a few months preceding his own setting out, died 

 suddenly just before his arrival. He had anticipated with 

 pleasure finding him at Melbourne, and the news of one away, 

 like himself, from home and kindred, being thus suddenly cut off, 

 could not fail to affect him very sensibly. His heart was filled 

 with the deepest sympathy for those on whoni the stroke had 

 most heavily fallen, and one or two of his letters written in 

 reference to the sad event, exhibit so truly his genuine tender- 

 ness and depth of feeling, that it would seem hardly doing 

 justice to his memory were the editor to withhold them. 



To Mrs. F . 



Melbourne, September 1, 18;"4. 

 Nothing can break the news to you, or lessen the intensity 

 of your grief; but the one Friend to whom " all hearts be open " 

 will not leave you comfortless in this great trial. He will not 

 break the bruised reed utterly, and surely He never afflicts but 

 with merciful purpose. 



I hope to see Mr. Le M soon, as I am going to Port 



