Saturday, May 17th

Andy and Robert came in by daylight to our bedroom page 182and began planing and hammering away. We were soon up. Went to the Port and took away a miscellaneous cargo-including cats. Got an invitation to picnic in Rhodes's Bay for Monday. Back to dinner on the Island and afterwards went to meet Henry and the cows. They were round by four o'clock, but the tide was too high and on the flow; so Caughey and I stayed to herd them. We lit a fire and kept watch till ten o'clock, when the tide had fallen and the others came back, by whose help we got them easily over. Poor Novice appears weakly and in a bad state—her udder is much swollen and very hard.