The Poor Horses Were So Exhausted By Previous Fatigue And Privation, That They Could Not Return, And I Was Most Reluctantly Obliged To Leave Them To Obtain Relief For Ourselves, And The Two Remaining Horses We Had With Us.

After reaching the nearest water, we made every effort to save the unfortunate animals we had left behind; and

For seven days, myself, the man, and a boy, were incessantly and laboriously engaged almost day and night in carrying water backwards and forwards to them - feeding them with bread, gruel, etc. I regret to say that all our efforts were in vain, and that the expedition has sustained a fatal and irreparable injury in the loss of three of its best draught horses. The dray and the provisions I subsequently recovered, and on the evening of the 15th December, I rejoined my party behind Point Fowler, to prepare despatches for the WATERWITCH, since the weak and unserviceable condition of nearly the whole of our remaining horses rendered any further attempt to penetrate so inhospitable a region quite impracticable for the present. In traversing the country along the coast from Streaky Bay to the limits of our present exploration, within twelve miles of the head of the Great Bight, we have found the country of a very uniform description - low flat lands, or a succession of sandy ridges, densely covered with a brush of EUCALYPTUS DUMOSA, salt water tea-tree, and other shrubs - whilst here and there appear a few isolated patches of open grassy plains, scattered at intervals among the scrub.

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