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EXPENSES.
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