I was somewhat reluctant to consent to this, but at length gave way to him; we had not however gone more than two and a half miles, when he again caught sight of smoke due west of us, and was as earnest in his desire to return to the creek as he had been to leave it.

Being myself anxious to communicate with the natives I now the more readily yielded to his entreaties.

Where we came upon it there was a quantity of grass in its bed, but although we saw the fire at which they had been, the natives again escaped us.

Mr.Browne and Topar ran their track up the creek, and soon reached a hut opposite to which there was a well.

On ascending a little from its bed they discovered a small pool of water in the centre of a watercourse joining the main branch hereabouts from the hills.