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Adelaide. So everything seemed to be in my favour. Now I found
that he had left an officer in Geraldton on a law suit. So
left Fremantle for Bunbury as she had to load a quantity of
timber for Melbourne. So we left Bunbury and arrived at
port Adelaide and got paid off. So I earned a bit of money
instead of paying my passage. So I commenced to get my
goods and chattels down into Howard Smiths shed at Port
Adelaide and got all ready for the passage back by the Gabo
I also got all my family together and kept them all at a
Boarding house until the Gabo arrived. So I went up to
Adelaide to see about the passage money for my family. So
I wanted to see the manager and I told him I had my own
ticket signed by Captain Leslie for my own passage back
so he wanted to know how many of a family I had to go
to Fremantle. And I told him I had four girls and one
son. As I had one girl and one son in Fremantle and
my oldest son stayed in Port Adelaide. So as the manager
said, now you have cleared three steamers for our company
as our captain was not exempt for Spencer's Gulf and you
was good enough to sign on master and clear those
steamers, so I will take twenty per cent of the passage
money for your family. And yourself go free, along with
your furniture. So I agreed right away, and the Gabo
came in two days after. So I got all my goods and
family on board, and sailed for Fremantle in the face
of a Nor West Gale. Anyhow the gale seemed to
abate next day so we had fine weather crossing the
Bight, and right into Albany. So we only laid there
one night as she had a good bit of cargo for Albany
so we sailed early next morning and arrived in
Fremantle next day and got family and everything
up in the Swan Brewery Steamer. And arrived at our
new home at the Swan Brewery. So everything was
O.K. and one of my daughters took charge of the house
and I took charge of my steamer and ran her between
Perth and Fremantle for thirteen years, and unfortunately