crop was a very large one, from fifteen to twenty tons to the acre,
and Davy had received orders to take in fifty tons of the potatoes,
and to sell them in South Australia. He did so, and after four days'
passage went ashore at the port, offered the potatoes for sale, and
sold twenty tons at 22 pounds 10 shillings per ton. On going ashore
again next morning, he was offered 20 pounds per ton for the
remainder, and he sold them at that price.

On the same day the 'Nelson' brig, from Hobarton, arrived with one
hundred tons of potatoes, but she could not sell them, as Davy had
fully stocked the market. He was paid for the potatoes in gold by
the two men who bought them.

He went up to the new city of Adelaide. All the buildings were of
the earliest style of architecture, and were made of tea-tree and
sods, or of reeds dabbed together with mud. The hotels had no
signboards, but it was easy to find them by the heaps of bottles
outside. Kangaroo flesh was 1s. 6d. a pound, but grog was cheap.
Davy was looking for a shipmate named Richard Ralph, who was then the
principal architect and builder in the city. He found him erecting
homes for the immigrants out of reeds and mud. He was paid 10 pounds
or 12 pounds for each building. He was also hunting kangaroo and
selling meat. He was married to a lady immigrant, and on the whole
appeared to be very comfortable and prosperous. Davy gave the lady a
five-shilling piece to go and fetch a bottle of gin, and was
surprised when she came back bringing two bottles of gin and 3s.
change. In the settlement the necessaries of life were dear, but the
luxuries were cheap. If a man could not afford to buy kangaroo beef
and potatoes, he could live sumptuously on gin. Davy walked back to
the port the same evening, and next day took in ballast, which was