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to record thus publicly the obligations I was under 
to Captain Rossiter. 
On the 14th, I landed the stores, to arrange and 
pack them ready for the journey. They consisted 
of forty pounds of flour, six pounds of biscuit, twelve 
pounds of rice, twenty pounds of beef, twenty 
pounds of pork, twelve pounds of sugar, one pound 
of tea, a Dutch cheese, five pounds of salt butter, a 
little salt, two bottles of brandy, and two tin sauce- 
pans for cooking ; besides some tobacco and pipes 
for Wylie, who was a great smoker, and the canteens 
filled with treacle for him to eat with rice. The 
great difficulty was now, how to arrange for the pay- 
ment of the various supplies I had been furnished 
with, as I had no money with me, and it was a 
matter of uncertainty, whether the ship would touch 
at any of the Australian colonies. Captain Rossiter 
however, said that he had some intention of calling 
at King George’s Sound, when the Bay whaling was 
over, and as that was the place to which I was 
myself going, I gave him an order upon Mr. Sherratt, 
who had previously acted as my agent there in the 
transaction of some business matters in 1840. To 
this day, however, I have never learnt whether 
Captain Rossiter visited King George’s Sound or 
not. 
In arranging the payment, I could not induce the 
Captain to receive any thing for the twelve days’ 
that we had been resident in the ship, nor would he 
allow me to pay for some very comfortable warm 
