Next day, when out fishing, Lawson, Mutch, Brady and son Hugh caught 24 schnapper in under an hour. As Mutch mentioned “the catch would have been considerably larger if the young Hugh hadn’t kept getting his line tangled and holding me up in the process”.

The three adults also went on camping trips, one to Harrison’s Creek, where Lawson insisted on making Johnny Cakes on a sheet of bark and baking them in the open fire. Brady managed to hide his share in a crack in the slab wall, but Mutch, sitting directly opposite the cook, was not so fortunate After eating as many as he could stomach, he stood up, hurling the rest out into the night, cursing loudly. Lawson, offended, ate all of his with obvious relish; and later the others wished he hadn’t. After a bout of terrible nightmares, which kept everyone awake, he could only be quietened by Mutch threatening to “brin” him with a log of wood. After sleep finally overcame Henry the others crept out into the dawn and stuffed the soggy remains down a near-by wombat hole.