After breakfast the wind shifted to the southward, and the ‘Henry’ brig, from Launceston, Captain Whiting, ran in, bound to Point Henry with sheep; but before Mills and his men could get away from Mud Island the brig had passed.  They pulled and sailed after her, but did not overtake her until she arrived off the point where Batman first settled, now called Port Arlington; at that time they called the place Indented Heads.

When the whaleboat came near the brig to ask for water, two or three muskets were levelled at the men over the bulwarks, and they were told to keep off, or they would be shot.  At that time a boat’s crew of prisoners had escaped from Melbourne in a whale boat, and the ship-wrecked men were suspected as the runaways.  But one of the crew of the ‘Henry’, named Jack Macdonald, looked over the side, and seeing Davy in the boat, asked him what they had done with the schooner ‘Thistle’, and they told him they had lost her at Port Fairy.

Captain Whiting asked Macdonald if he knew them, and on being informed that they were the captain and crew of the schooner ‘Thistle’, he invited them on board and supplied them with a good dinner.  They went on to Point Henry in the brig, and assisted in landing the sheep.

Batman was at that time in Melbourne.  Davy had seen him before in Launceston.  After discharging the sheep the brig proceeded to Gellibrand’s Point, and as Captain Whiting wanted to go up to Melbourne, the men pulled him up the Yarra in their whaleboat.  Fawkner’s Hotel at that time was above the site of the present customs House, and was built with broad paling.  Mills and Whiting stayed there that night, Davy and the other two men being invited to a small public-house kept by a man named Burke, a little way down Little Flinders Street, where they were made very comfortable.

Next day they went back to the brig ‘Henry’, and started for Launceston.

In May, 1838, Davy was made master of the schooner ‘Elizabeth’, and took in her a cargo of sheep, and landed them at Port Fairy.  The three old convicts whom Griffiths had sent there along with his father Jonathan, had planted four or five acres of potatoes at a place called Goose Lagoon, about two miles behind the township.  The crop was a very large one, from fifteen to twenty tons to the acre, and Davy had received orders to take in fifty tons of the potatoes, and to sell them in South Australia.  He did so, and after four days’ passage went ashore at the port, offered the potatoes for sale, and sold twenty tons at 22 pounds 10 shillings per ton.  On going ashore again next morning, he was offered 20 pounds per ton for the remainder, and he sold them at that price.

On the same day the ‘Nelson’ brig, from Hobarton, arrived with one hundred tons of potatoes, but she could not sell them, as Davy had fully stocked the market.  He was paid for the potatoes in gold by the two men who bought them.