And the mission must go on foot.

Mr.Bonwick furnishes a description of those horrible regions, whereby it will be seen that even fugitive gangs of the hardiest and choicest human devils the world has seen--the convicts set apart to people the "Hell of Macquarrie Harbor Station"-- were never able, but once, to survive the horrors of a march through them, but starving and struggling, and fainting and failing, ate each other, and died: "Onward, still onward, was the order of the indomitable Robinson.

No one ignorant of the western country of Tasmania can form a correct idea of the traveling difficulties.

While I was resident in Hobart Town, the Governor, Sir John Franklin, and his lady, undertook the western journey to Macquarrie Harbor, and suffered terribly.

One man who assisted to carry her ladyship through the swamps, gave me his bitter experience of its miseries.