[Footnote] *See His Journal.

CHAPTER V.

First Start in Search of Settlement - Character of the Jardine - The Eliot - Return to Main Camp - Flooded State of River - Impromptu Raft - Crossing Horses - Uncertainty - Second Start in Search of Settlement - View of the Ocean - Reach South Shore of Newcastle Bay - Reach Mouth of True Escape - Unable to Cross - A Dainty Meal - Character of the Escape - Return to Main Camp - Horses Knocked-up - Another Horse Dead - Flour Exhausted - Wretched Condition of Horses - More Baggage Abandoned - Prospects - The Whole Party Again Move Forward - Another Horse Abandoned - Reach Head of Tide View of the Gulf - Barne Island - Return up the Jardine - Third Start in Search of Settlement - Wild Grape - Crossing Saddles - a Disappointment - Head the Escape River - Meet Friendly Natives - Natives Act as Pilots - Native Bread - Canoes - Corroboree - Native Drums - Arrival at Somerset - Mr. Jardine's Marked-tree Line - Meeting with their Father - A Heroine.

'January' 30. - This morning, Mr. F. Jardine with his Brother and the Blackboy, Eulah, started to find the Settlement, leaving the rest of the party encamped with the cattle, in charge of Mr. Scrutton. They took with them a week's ration of 25 lbs. of flour, and 12 lbs. meat (tea and sugar had long been things of the past), intending to follow the supposed river down to the head of the tide. It was accordingly followed for about 21 miles, but to their astonishment, instead of trending N.N.E., its general course was found to be North-west 1/2 West.

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