Some natives had only just preceded us down it: we came upon their fires that were still smoking; and upon them were the remains of some fish they had taken, near which they had left a cumbrous spear.

The circumstances cheered us with hopes that an improvement would take place in the country, and that some new feature would soon open upon us.

In the course of the following day, however, every favorable change, both in the river and in the country, disappeared.
The latter continued extremely depressed, and in general open, or lightly covered with acacia pendula; the former dwindled into a mere ditch, choked up with brambles and reeds, and having only here and there a stagnant pool of water.

We travelled on a N.W.

1/2 W.course for about ten miles, and again stopped for the night without water.