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of murdering a fellow-creature ? “ Oh,” he replied, “ the 
case is quite different. If I kill myself, I shall imme¬ 
diately descend to the bottomless pit; but if I kill another, 
I would be sent to Hobart Town, and tried for my life: 
if found guilty, the parson would attend me, and I would 
be sure of going to Heaven! ” 
Another man, of the name of Mayo, without the 
smallest provocation, whilst following in Indian file 
another man named Bailey Jones, (who had once ap¬ 
peared in the respectable walks of society as an officer 
of the army, the son of a Colonel), struck an axe into 
his head, which shortly caused his death. 
Mayo gave as his reason for the act, that hehad been all 
his life accustomed to tobacco, and had often given the 
best part of his meals for a smoke. There was no 
tobacco on the settlement then, he must go without, and 
would rather die; he therefore killed Jones, that he 
might be sent up and hanged. He added, that he had 
selected Jones, not from animosity, as he had never had 
any altercation with him, but because he considered him 
a very bad man. 
“ The small island,” like the settlement, has no water, 
which, as well as wood, was carried over every day. The 
worst wood was sent there because it would not float; for 
if it had that quality, it would have been used for rafts 
wherewith to escape. 
From Grunnet Island, a trip of about four miles 
brings you to the farm : here a large tract was brought 
into cultivation, but the soil was so bad that little was 
grown. 
A piggery was, however, established here by Captain 
Butler, which was of great use to the settlement, affording 
occasionally a fresh meal,—a great treat at a place where 
nothing but salt meat was issued. The pigs, exclusive 
of the food received from the settlement, found abundant 
