He was positive he never travelled to the SOUTHWARD OF WEST.

He ascended a hill near the sea, and observed an island in the distance, from which, the natives informed him, a race of light-coloured men came in large canoes for a scented wood; but having failed in the immediate object of his journey, he was eventually obliged to return.
MAJOR MITCHELL'S REPORT.
The following official report of Major Mitchell will sufficiently point out the incorrectness of the preceding statement.

It is most probable that Barber merely told that which he had heard from the natives, and that having a more than ordinary share of cunning, he made up a story upon their vague and uncertain accounts, in hopes that it would benefit him, as in truth it did.
* * * * * Bullabalakit, on the River Nammoy, in lat.

30 degrees 38 minutes 21 seconds S., long.

149 degrees 30 minutes 20 seconds E.
23d December, 1831.
SIR, I have the honour to state, for the information of His Excellency the Governor, the progress I have made in exploring the course of the interior waters to the northward of the Colony, with reference to the letter which I had the honour to address to Col.