280 MEMOIR OF DR. HARVEY. 



I propose to call it P. Victoriana, eitlier after the Colony or 

 the Queen. When fresh it is like luxuriant tresses of pale 

 auburn hair, but almost immediately, if left in the air, turns to 

 rose-coloured slime or jelly. I have managed, however, to 

 preserve it pretty well. 



On the return of the Wyvern, government tender, now out 

 on duty, the governor will send her especially with me to 

 Phillip Island, Western Port, where I am going to land with my 

 hat in my hand, and to say, " Dear Mr. Mac H., here I am 

 lauded, but in want of bed and board. There are none, you 

 know, to be had on your island for money, so pray give them to 

 me for love. All I want is a comfortable room, as many tubs of 

 fresh water as possible, and plenty to eat and drink," &c, &c. 

 I have a letter of introduction to this gentleman, and on the 

 strength of it am going, if I can, to quarter myself on him. 



Queen's Cliff, Port Phillip Head, 



November 30 th. 



1 took three places on the post car from Geelong'Ho this 

 place, two of them being charged for my luggage. The other 

 passengers were very good-natured, and submitted to be ham- 

 pered by my ungainly bundles of paper, iron frames, buckets, 

 bowls, dishes, and baskets. " I like to be accommodated 

 myself," was the polite reply of one of the passengers to whom 

 I apologised for my buckets pressing against his legs in the 

 well of the car. We had a pleasant drive of twenty-one miles, 

 which we accomplished in three hours, arriving'' in time for the 

 Hotel dinner. 



I take my meals with the Hotel people, and sleep in a sort of 

 barrack-room, with four beds and a narrow passage" between 

 each. One of my fellow-occupants is the driver of the' omnibus, 

 but the other two beds are dependent on chance. One night of 

 the seven I have been here I had the room to myself," but on 

 all the others two or more beds were filled. Some are a little 

 noisy going to bed, but soon settle down, and on the whole the 

 disagreeability is not excessive, as they let me alone, and I go 

 to bed generally first and rise first. The most disagreeable 

 thing is, that the sheets seem to be changed only at stated 

 intervals, no objection being made by the chance visitors^to 

 sleep in those of the former occupant. As 1 arrived in the 



