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<p>[Page 89]</p><p>times, which would have earned him £5-10 a day. Thus the adieu from the Jerseyville residents was relatively intimate and for a long while after we departed they were still waving their handkerchiefs. From Jerseyville we went upstream for about 1½ hours to Kempsey. From a scenery point of view, this area offers absolutely nothing. The shores are shallow, a few weeping willows here and there, occasionally a small homestead and some grazing cattle, but hardly an agricultural field, just pastures. At Kempsey the so far rather narrow river widened considerably and our boats were able to turn. We disembarked at a pier and, guarded at gunpoint as always, marched off to the station, where several chartered trains were waiting. Kempsey is a nice and clean rural town of about 5000 inhabitants. Here, too, the residents were gathered to gawk at Australia's prisoners. Apart from a few jeers there was no demonstration [of hostility].</p>