The natives promised the master to take the greatest care of him should he again appear, but it is needless to say he was seen no more.

The Government were very solicitous about him, and when he had been absent four years, Mr.Hovendon Heley was sent away with an outfit of pack-horses and six or seven men, to endeavour to trace him.

This expedition seems to have wandered about for several months, and discovered, as Mr.Heley states, two marked trees branded exactly alike, namely L over XVA, and each spot where these existed is minutely described.

There was at each, a water-hole, upon the bank of which the camp was situated; at each camp a marked tree was found branded alike; at each, the frame of a tent was left standing; at each, some logs had been laid down to place the stores and keep them from damp.

The two places as described appear so identical that it seems impossible to think otherwise than that Heley and his party arrived twice at the same place without knowing it.