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Curtain en t«e oriels and E^gsr, s tine pises ci searrian-

bucyed channel; v,*e set a jib to help and turned around
in cur tracks in spite cf the strong wind.

In the Indi&r. Qce&r*

Plenty cats en beard. Carlyle Smyths [his agent] says
it is British law that they must be carried. Instances case
cf a ship net allowed to sail till she sent fcr a couple cf
cats and the bill came: two cats 20 shillings.

The jackass (bird) laughed fcr us. Vulture, red, bald,
queer, sloped head, featherless, red places here and there
on body, intense great black eyes, set in red featureless
rim, dissipated icck. A businesslike style, a selfish, con-
scienceless, murderous, aspect. The very lock of a pro-
fessional assassin, and yet a bird which dees no murder.

One must say it very softly, but the truth is that the
native Australian is as vain cf his unpretty country as if
it were the final masterpiece of God, achieved by Him
from designs by that Australian. He is as sensitive about
her as men are of sacred things—can?t bear to have
critical things said about her.

Jan. 6. At midnight went to sleep with eight bells in
my ear; slept; woke and heard two bells; slept, woke and
heard four bells; slept, woke, heard sevea bells; slept,
woke and heard one bell; slept, woke, heard two bells, and
the bugle call to breakfast. Took my coffee in bed—kind
of a fool of a night.

He mislays his notebooks from time to time,
now, and his notes get rather mixed, in conse-

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