but that it is his duty to go to Government House in whatever condition he may find it.
6. On the other hand it is generally impossible and would almost always be extremely difficult for Governors who are frequently immersed in business as soon as they are appointed, to provide the most needful requirements for passing the first few days after arrival in ordinary decency and comfort. In many Colonies, as here, at certain seasons such inconvenience might be seriously prejudicial to health. Sir Hercules Robinson (my predecessor) told me that he landed here in a typhoon, and found nothing upstairs in Government House but bare walls and floors. He was afterwards paid £250 for that inconvenience, on condition that he left furniture in the bedrooms to be taken by his successor. Consequently, I thought I had considered myself very fortunate.
8. Speaking for myself, I can only say that something was requisite to make the House habitable, and a plain narrative of what actually occurred to myself is the best illustration I can give of the working of the present system.
I arrived on a Sunday evening when, so far as I knew, there was no possibility of purchasing anything. Lady MacDonnell was greatly fatigued, and though it would
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