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arrival of another man. 
debted to him for the ready and enterprising manner 
in which he had volunteered, to undertake a voyage 
from Port Lincoln to Adelaide in a small open boat, 
and the successful manner in which he had accom- 
plished it. Among other commissions, I had re- 
quested him to bring me another man to accompany 
the expedition in the place of the one (R. APRobert) 
who had driven the dray to Port Lincoln, and 
with whom I was going to part ; as also to bring for 
me a native, named Wylie, an aborigine, from King 
George’s Sound, whom I had taken with me to Ade- 
laide on my return in May last, but who had been 
too ill to accompany me at the time the expedition 
started ; the latter he had not been able to accom- 
plish, as the boy was in the country when he reached 
Adelaide, and there was not time to get him down 
before the Waterwitch sailed. The man, however, 
he had procured, and I was glad to recognize in 
him an old servant, who had been with me in 
several of my former expeditions, and who was a 
most excellent carter and tent servant. His name 
was Thomas Costelow. 
Having received large packets of papers and many 
letters, both from relations in England, and from 
many warm-hearted friends in Adelaide, I returned 
with Mr. Scott and Costelow to the tent, to make 
immediate preparations for our departure. The 
delay, occasioned by my having been obliged to 
send to Adelaide for our supplies, had so greatly 
protracted the period of my absence from the rest of 
