36 CONTINUED ILLNESS, 
the attack was over, I was left very weak, and inca- 
pable of exertion. Wylie was also affected. It was 
evident that the food we were now living upon, was 
not wholesome or nutritious. Day after day we 
felt ourselves getting weaker and more relaxed, 
whilst the least change of weather, or the slightest 
degree of cold, was most painfully felt by both of 
us. What we were to do in the wet weather, which 
might daily be expected, I knew not, suffering as we 
did from the frosts and dews only. In the state we 
now were in, I do not think that we could have sur- 
vived many days’ exposure to wet. 
May 15. — I intended to have proceeded early on 
our journey this morning, but was so ill again, that 
for some hours I could not stir. The boy was simi- 
larly situated. About ten we got a little better, and 
packing up our things, moved away, but had 
scarcely gone more than a couple of miles along the 
beach, when I discovered that the horse-hobbles had 
been left behind. It was Wylie’s duty always to 
take these off, and strap them round the horses 
necks, whilst I was arranging the saddles, and fixing 
on them our arms, provisions, &c. ; he had forgotten to 
do this, and had left them lying on the ground. As 
we could not possibly do without the hobbles, I sent 
Wylie back for them, telling him I would drive on 
the horses slowly for a few miles, and then halt to 
wait for him. 
After proceeding eleven miles along the Coast, 
I halted, and Wylie came up a little before dark, 
