His muscles were now attacked and he was suffering great pain, but, as the disease appeared inclined to make to the surface, Mr.Browne had some hopes of a favourable change.

Both Mr.
Browne and myself found that the sameness of our diet began to disagree with us, and were equally anxious for the reappearance of vegetation, in the hope that we should be able to collect sow-thistles or the tender shoots of the rhagodia as a change.

We had, whilst it lasted, taken mint tea, in addition to the scanty supply of tea to which we were obliged to limit ourselves, but I do not think it was wholesome.
The moon entered her third quarter on the 27th, but brought no change; on the contrary she chased away the clouds as she rose, and moved through the heavens in unshrouded and dazzling brightness.

Sometimes a dark mass of clouds would rise simultaneously with her, in the west, but as the queen of night advanced in her upward course they gradually diminished the velocity with which they at first came up; stopped, and fell back again, below the horizon.

Not once, but fifty times have we watched these apparently contending forces, but whether I am right in attributing the cause I will not say.
At this time (the end of April) the weather was very fine, although the thermometer ranged high.