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was only three berths for three ships and all the rest of the ships
had to lay in the stream and wait their turns so we had to
discharge this ballast into lighters and cleaned the ship out. And
took in stone ballast. So when she was ready for sea again
two of the apprentices and myself had a conference together and made
it up to bolt from her rather than stand the cruelty of the second
officer. So there was a boarding house in the front of the port at that
time kept by a man by the name of Jack Hanley and believe me
it was only a house built mostly with timber and lined with bags.
Anyhow he took in what clothes we managed to get on shore. So
the night before she sailed we bolted. And walked away up the
old port road until we came accross a Shepherds Hut and there
the three of us camped for the night. As we was the only inmates
and one of the three of us called McIntire was told to call on some
relations of his before he left home who was a storekeeper at a place
called Kentown near Adelaide. So we thought we would get
up pretty early in the morning and find out this store in Kent-
own and about midday we found it all right. And glad
to see it as we was commencing to be pretty hungry. Anyhow
McIntire entered this store and made himself known and
his relations was all so overjoyed at seeing him. When McIntire
stopped and told them that him and two more of the apprecentices
had run away from the Ship at the port. And if they would
give him a bit of tucker for the three of us we would get away
at once as the police would be on our trail. And he did
not want to get them into any trouble if we was caught.
Anyhow out came McIntire with as much food as last
us two or three days. So away we went into the bush and had
a good feed for I assure you we wanted it. Anyhow, we made
another start and got away somewhere about where Burnside
stands today. And we came across another Store. And the three
of us went in and asked if there were any work to be got.
And there happened to be a tall lady im buying some stores
and she asked us where we had come from. And we could
tell by her broken English that she was a foreigner. Anyhow
it did not much matter what she was as we were anxious to