The skiff being now only a drag upon them, it was broken up and burnt for the sake of the ironwork.

On account of the damage to the salt pork caused by the sinking of this boat, the strictest economy of diet had to be exercised, and though an abundance of fish was caught, they had become unattractive to their palates.

The continuation of the voyage down the course of the Murray was henceforth a monotonous repetition of severe daily toil at the oar.

The natives whom they encountered, though friendly, became a nuisance from the constant handling and embracing that the voyagers had, from purposes of policy, to suffer unchecked.

The tribes met with were more than ordinarily filthy, and were disfigured by loathsome skin diseases.