The liver I ordered to be carried on board, to be boiled for the oil and used in our lamp.
"On the 11th of March, the wind still hanging to the south, I took some hands on shore to cut a boatload of wood and fill our water casks...Messieurs Barrallier and Caley, with two soldiers, accompanied me on another excursion.

We took another direction inland...but saw no kangaroos.

We met with two small lagoons and several streams of good water running through the thickest part of the woods.

In this excursion we saw the Laughing Bird so called from the noise it makes resembling laughter.* (* The Giant Kingfisher or Kookaburra.) "On our return to the boat we fell in with a spot of ground which appeared to have been selected by the natives for the purposes of festivity.

It was a small eminence having no habitation near.