It was very rarely we could purchase a little fish; fowls there were none; and we were reduced to live upon tough pigeons and cockatoos, with our rice and sago, and sometimes we could not get these.

Having been already eight months on this voyage, my stock of all condiments, spices and butter, was exhausted, and I found it impossible to eat sufficient of my tasteless and unpalatable food to support health.

I got very thin and weak, and had a curious disease known (I have since heard) as brow-ague.

Directly after breakfast every morning an intense pain set in on a small spot on the right temple.

It was a severe burning ache, as bad as the worst toothache, and lasted about two hours, generally going off at noon.