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 Government House; went up to dress, as Captain Byrne had had notice of various introductions—and from that time till luncheon the room has been full, and now I am come back to put up this letter and go to sleep.

We give a great ball on Monday night, to which the whole English society is asked, and a concert on Wednesday, to which the native princes will come; and we mean to refuse all visits that week and the following week, and to have two days regularly advertised for receiving anybody who likes to come. To-night we make what the newspapers call ‘the first public appearance of the Governor-General and his family at the Opera.’ The heat, I take it, surpasses all description; but I hardly see how it is to be worse in one place than another.

Sunday, March 13. I finished and sent off, per ‘Robert,’ my Journal up to March 12th, last night. We went to the old church, to hear a charity sermon from Archdeacon Dealtry for Mrs. Wilson’s Native Orphan School—a very good sermon—and, as all the punkahs were put up, the church was not so hot as I have felt it in London.