When I Landed In Adelaide With My Money In My Pocket - Minus A Few Pounds I Had Lost At Whist And Cribbage On Board Ship - I Made My Way To The Best Inn, Where I Stayed Some Days, And Ran Up Rather A Longish Bill.

Then I wanted to see the country, which I found impossible without a horse, so bought one, and rode about to the various stations, where I was generally hospitably received, and thus passed a few months very pleasantly, only my purse was running low.

I sold the horse, then my watch, and spent the money. When that was gone, I thought of the letters of introduction I possessed. The first that came to hand was directed to a Wesleyan minister. I called there, looking as sanctimonious as I could. He heard my story, advised me to go to chapel regularly, 'And for your temporal wants,' said he, 'the Lord will provide.' I thanked him, and bowed myself off.

"My first act was to burn my packet of introductory letters, my next was to engage myself to a stock-holder at 15s. a week and my rations. He was going up to his station at once, and I accompanied him. We travelled for about two hundred miles through a most beautiful country before we reached his home. His house was, in my ideas, a comical-looking affair - made of split logs of wood, with a bark roof, and a barrel stuck on the top of the roof at one end by way of a chimney-pot.

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