Calvert, Murphy, and Brown, came in early this morning; they had lost their way in the dark, in consequence of remaining too long at the water-hole.

They informed me that they had passed the night on an open piece of forest ground along a creek.

This intelligence induced me to examine the locality: I therefore went with Brown, and found the creek, with a deep sandy, but dry bed, full of reeds; its direction being from south by west to north by east.

I followed it up about eight miles, when the scrub receded from its left bank, and a fine open extensive flat stretched to the westward.

I looked into the Casuarina thickets which occasionally fringed its bank, in search of water; but found none.