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doing well but the inn-keeper, and he owed his 
success chiefly to the custom or traffic of the foreign 
whalers who occasionally resorted here for refresh- 
ments. The stockholders, living a few miles from 
town, who ought to have succeeded the best, were 
getting dissatisfied at the many disadvantages which 
they laboured under, and the smallness of the com- 
munity around them, and every thing wore a 
gloomy aspect, 
October 4. — After breakfast, accompanied by Mr. 
Scott, I went to Port Lincoln to attend divine ser- 
vice ; prayers were read by Dr. Harvey. The con- 
gregation was small but respectable, and apparently 
devout. After church, we accompanied Dr. Harvey 
home to dinner, and met the Captain and Surgeon of 
one of the French whalers in port ; both of whom 
appeared intelligent, and superior to the class usually 
met with in such employments. After dinner we all 
walked down to the lagoon, west of Port Lincoln, 
where the land is of a rich black alluvial character, 
and well adapted for cultivation. Returning by our 
tents, Dr. Harvey and the Frenchmen took tea with 
us, and then returned to the settlement. In the course 
of our walk this afternoon, Dr. Harvey offered to put 
a temporary hatch over his boat, and send her to 
Adelaide for me for ten pounds, which offer I at 
once accepted, and Mr. Scott volunteered to go in 
her as supercargo. 
October 5. —To-day I employed myself in writing 
letters, whilst the dray went to Port Lincoln for 
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