| 14 cwt. of meal | £50 | 0 |
| 1 ton of flour | 30 | 0 |
| Rum | 10 | 0 |
| Wine | 6 | 0 |
| Rice | 6 | 0 |
| Sugar | 5 | 0 |
| Coffee | 4 | 0 |
| Tea | 1 | 10 |
| Oil | 3 | 0 |
| Soap | 2 | 0 |
| Wages and clothes for servants | 36 | 0 |
| Clothes for myself | 20 | 0 |
After adding wages and the value of garden vegetables, you may see the present expenses of a colonist here.
8th.—Dined with Mr. Mackie. His grant, with the new house and garden, are the pride of the colony. The house is prettily situated on a gently-rounded eminence, rising from an extensive meadow flat, on the bank of the river. The house, when completed, is to be flat-roofed with boards, pitched and caulked like the deck of a ship. He has great quantities of melons and cucumbers, which probably produce as much money as pays his steward's salary—52l. a year—besides rations for a family of eleven persons. From the front of my little crib I can see into his hall door.
10th.—Opened my chest of books, which has been at Fremantle since my arrival; they are in better condition than I could have expected after so long and close a confinement, and looked very like, and, by association of thoughts, reminded me of old friends. The collection of English grasses
