Notwithstanding this, I spent hours looking down on the landscape, and mourning more over the mental and moral blight, which shed its influence on the public heart, than the plague spot whose dark circumference embraced the circle of the island.

From heat, fatigue and the effects of weak food, I discharged my stomach more than once, while descending the ranges of the Comeraghs.

I again took up my station for the night at the village of Sradavalla.

It was deemed prudent I should not sleep in the same house as on the previous night, and about eleven o'clock, accompanied by five or six men of the village, I proceeded to a house farther up the mountain.

Here the accommodation was not such as we expected, and we were forced to return.