If we crossed a sheep-track we joyfully announced that we had found the way, but only to be undeceived the next moment by discovering that we were returning to the creek.
From time to time we fell into and over Spaniards, and what was left of our clothes and our flesh the wild Irishmen devoured.

We must have got home somehow, or I should not be writing an account of it, at this moment, but really I hardly know how we reached the house.

I recollect that the next day there was a great demand for gold-beater's skin, and court-plaster, and that whenever F---- and Mr.U---- had a spare moment during the ensuing week, they devoted themselves to performing surgical operations on each other with a needle; and that I felt very subdued and tired for a day or two.

But there was no question of fever or cold, and I was stared at when I inquired whether it was not dangerous to be out all night in heavy dew after a broiling day.
We had the eels made into a pie by our shepherd, who assured me that if I entrusted them to my cook she would send me up such an oily dish that I should never be able to endure an eel again.

He declared that the Maoris, who seem to have rather a horror of grease, had taught him how to cook both eels and wekas in such a way as to eliminate every particle of fat from both.