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plaining ; indeed, it would have been wonderful if he 
had not, considering the enormous quantity of horse 
flesh that he daily devoured. After his feasts, he 
would lie down, and roll and groan, and say he was 
“ mendyt” (ill) and nothing would induce him to 
get up, or to do any thing. There were now plenty 
of sting-ray fish along the beach again, and I was 
desirous, if possible, to get one for a change of diet ; 
my friend, however, had so much to eat, that though 
he said he should like fish too, I could not get him 
to go about a mile to the back of the sand-hills, to 
cut a stick from the scrub, to make a spear for 
catching them. 
May 13. — After breakfast, Wylie said he thought 
he could catch some bandicoots, by firing the scrub 
near the sand-hills, and went out for an hour or two 
to try, but came back as he went. During his ab- 
sence, I was employed in repairing my only two 
pair of socks now left, which were sadly dilapidated, 
but of which I was obliged to be very careful, as they 
were the only security I had against getting lame. 
In the afternoon I walked down to the beach, to try 
to spear sting-ray, but the sea was rough, and I saw 
none. In my ramble, I found plenty of the beauti- 
ful white clematis, so common both to the north 
and south of Sydney. 
May 14. — I was again seized with illness, though 
I had been particularly careful in the quantity of 
flesh which I had used. For many hours I suffered 
most excruciating pains ; and after the violence of 
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