We took fresh horses, but dispensed with any other attendants, and indeed went wholly unarmed.
CAMP OF NATIVES.
After following our old track to its termination, we kept up the right bank of the channel, and at length arrived at the camp of the natives; thus satisfying ourselves that we had been journeying on the Castlereagh, and that we were still following it down.

By this ride we ascertained that there was a distance of five-and-forty miles in its bed without a drop of water.

Few of the natives were in the camp.

The women avoided us, but not as if they were under any apprehension.

Crossing at the head of the pool, we again got on our old track, but seeing two or three men coming towards us we alighted, and, tying our horses to a tree, went to meet them.