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it was a full grown animal, and furnished us with 
a grateful supply of wholesome food. Once more 
Wylie enjoyed as much as he could eat, and after 
breakfast, I took the horse back to the camp, carry- 
ing with me about thirty -two pounds weight of the 
best and most fleshy parts of the kangaroo. Wylie 
remained behind with the rifle, to return leisurely 
and try to shoot another; but early in the afternoon 
he returned, not having seen one. The truth, I 
suspect was, that he had eaten too much to break- 
fast, and laid down to sleep when I was gone, coming 
back to the camp as soon as he felt hungry again. 
The rest of the day was taken up in attending to the 
horses and bringing a supply of water up for ourselves. 
The weather was mild and pleasant, and a few slight 
showers fell at night, but we were now so well pro- 
tected among the tea-trees, and had so much fire- 
wood, that we were not inconvenienced by the rain. 
As I still intended to remain in camp to recruit the 
horses, I wished Wylie to go out again on the 22nd, 
to try for another kangaroo ; but the other not being 
yet all used, he was very unwilling to do so, and it 
was only upon my threatening to move on if he did 
not, that I could get him out. As soon as he was 
gone, I went down to Point Malcolm to try to fish, 
as the weather was now so much more moderate. 
Unfortunately, my tackling was not strong, and 
after catching three rock-fish, weighing together 
three pounds and a half ; a large fish got hooked, 
and took great part of my line, hook and all, away. 
