Nor was this all; for even as I loitered up to the door the dray of Sam Murdock halted in front with another huge load.

A small vessel called the Waterwitch was sent to the head of Spencer's Gulf with the heaviest portion of their supplies, and the party had three horse drays with them.

There I availed myself of the kind offer of Mr. Andersona settler on the Bass River, who was going to Cape Patterson, to shoot wild cattle, the produce of the stock left behind when the old settlement was abandonedto give Mr. Fitzmaurice, and a small party, conveyance in his bullock dray to that projection, for the purpose of determining its position.

It was put on to a dray as before, and I was given my second ride on land.

In the lane he found them loading a dray in front of the distillery, and he started across to watch the men straining at the next barrel.

It is astonishing to see what work oxen will do; they drag drays over almost incredible steeps, not quartering them as horses do, but going straight up, be the hills ever so steep.