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THE COLONY.
ARRIVAL OF LETTERS, ETC.—COST OF WHEAT—HIGH CHARGES OF MECHANICS—COST OF WHEAT—RECOLLECTIONS OF HOME—SCARCITY OF LABOUR—GOVERNMENT SUPPLIES—BROILS WITH THE NATIVES—LITIGATION—EXECUTION OF MIDGEGOROO—YA-GAN—THE NATIVES.
April 15th, 1833.—I have received your letters and devoured them; have been buried in newspapers, busied in unpacking, airing, &c., and altogether bewildered, with the variety of occupations and amusements which have come upon me all at once, in addition to my ordinary avocations. I cannot bring my mind to a state of sober regularity without going back a little, getting on my old track, and so habituating myself, by degrees, to the novelties of the road.[1]
- ↑ The chest had been sent, viá Van Diemen's Land, in the latter end of 1831, but did not reach its destination by that rout till April, 1833. It contained the letters of nearly twelve months; and owing to his not having received them before, our emigrant complained in some of his letters of having been neglected by his friends.
