Most Of Our Pack-Saddles, All Our Horse-Shoes, Most Of Our Kegs For Holding Water, All Our Buckets But One, Our Medicines, Some Of Our Fire-Arms, A Quantity Of Ammunition, And A Variety Of Other Things, Were Here Abandoned.

Among the many things that we were compelled to leave behind there was none that I regretted parting with

More than a copy of Captain Sturt's Expeditions, which had been sent to me by the author to Fowler's Bay to amuse and cheer me on the solitary task I had engaged in; it was the last kind offering of friendship from a highly esteemed friend, and nothing but necessity would have induced me to part with it. Could the donor, however, have seen the miserable plight we were reduced to, he would have pitied and forgiven an act that circumstances alone compelled me to.

After all our arrangements were made, and every thing rejected that we could do without, I found that the loads of the horses were reduced in the aggregate about two hundred pounds; but this being divided among ten, relieved each only a little. Myself, the overseer, and the King George's Sound native invariably walked the whole way, but the two younger natives were still permitted to ride alternately upon one of the strongest horses. As our allowance of flour was very small, and the fatigue and exertion we were all obliged to undergo very great, I ordered a sheep to be killed before we moved on again.

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