184 
BUY MORE SHEEP. 
Lincoln friends. After transacting business matters, 
I settled with the man who was going to leave me, 
deducting the price of the sheep which by his careless- 
ness he had lost, and which had not been recovered ; 
I then paid Dr. Harvey for the hire of his boat, &c. 
and in arranging for it, he generously refused to 
receive more than £5. as his boat had not been used 
in the return voyage from Adelaide. He also most 
kindly supplied us with some few small things, 
which we yet required, and was altogether most 
attentive and courteous. 
Upon returning to our camp, I moved on the 
party, delighted once more with the prospect of 
being actively employed. Whilst I conducted the 
dray, I sent Mr. Scott round by Mr. Brown’s 
station, to buy eleven more sheep in the place of 
those M ‘Robert had lost, and at night he rejoined 
us with them near Mr. White’s station, about ten 
miles from Port Lincoln ; it was late before the sheep 
came, and the yard to put them in was made, and 
as there were so few of them, they were a good deal 
alarmed and would not go into the yard, rushing 
about violently, breaking away every time we drove 
them near it ; at last we got ten safely housed, and 
were obliged to put up with the loss of the eleventh, 
the night being quite dark. 
Mr. White and Mr. Poole visited us from their 
station, and I tried to purchase from the former 
a noble dog that he possessed, of the mastiff breed, 
but could not prevail upon him to part with it. 
