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then ate the entrails, paunch > liver, lights, tail, and 
two hind legs of the young kangaroo, next followed 
a penguin, that he had found dead upon the beach, 
upon this he forced down the whole of the hide of the 
kangaroo after singeing the hair off, and wound up this 
meal by swallowing the tough skin of the penguin ; he 
then made a little fire, and laid down to sleep, and 
dream of the pleasures of eating, nor do I think 
he was ever happier in his life than at that moment. 
May 19. — The morning set in very cold and 
showery, with the wind from the southward, making 
us shiver terribly as we went along ; luckily the 
country behind the sea-shore was at this place tolerably 
open, and we were for once enabled to leave the beach, 
and keep a little inland. The soil was light and sandy, 
but tolerably fertile. In places we found low brush, 
in others very handsome clumps of tea-tree scattered 
at intervals over some grassy tracts of country, giv- 
ing a pleasing and park-like appearance we had long 
been strangers to. The grass was green, and afforded 
a most grateful relief to the eye, accustomed here- 
tofore to rest only upon the naked sands or the 
gloomy scrubs we had so long been travelling 
amongst. Anxious if possible to give our horses a 
day or two’s rest, at such a grassy place, and espe- 
cially as the many kangaroos we saw, gave us hope 
of obtaining food for ourselves also, I twice dug for 
water, but did not find any of such quality as we 
could use. I was compelled therefore to turn in 
among the sand-hills of Point Malcolm, where I 
