I descended this river, and explored the country on its left bank for about eighty miles to the westward, when I found that its general course was somewhat to the southward of west.

This river received no addition from the mountains over that part of its left bank traversed by me; and the heat being intense, the stream was at length so reduced that I could step across it.

The banks had become low, and the bed much contracted, being no longer gravelly, but muddy.

I therefore crossed this river and travelled northward, on a meridian line, until, in the latitude of 29 degrees 2 minutes, I came upon the largest river I had yet seen.

The banks were earthy and broken, the soil being loose, and the water of a white muddy colour.