We succeeded in finding a small pond of water in one of the former, hardly large enough to supply our necessities, but as it enabled us to push so much further on, we turned towards the lagoon, making a circuitous journey to the right, across a large plain, bounded to the north by low acacia brush and box.

We struck upon a creek at the further extremity of the plain, in which there was a tolerably sized pond.
It appeared from the traces of men, that some natives had been there the day before; but we did not see any of them.

The water was extremely muddy and unfit for use.

The lagoon at which we had encamped, was of less importance than we had imagined.
JOURNEY DOWN THE RIVER.
Whilst Mr.Hume led the party down the river, I rode up its northward bank, to examine it more closely.

I found it to be a serpentine sheet of about three miles in length, gradually decreasing in depth until it separated into two small creeks.