We proceeded well for two miles and a half to our encampment of the 30th November; and as there was then a well defined track, I left the man to proceed alone, whilst I myself went once more to the coast to make a last effort to procure water among some of the sand-drifts.

In this I was unsuccessful.

There were not the slightest indications of water existing any where.

In returning to rejoin the dray, I struck into our outward track, about three miles below, where I had left it, and was surprised to find that the dray had not yet passed, though I had been three hours absent.

Hastily riding up the track, I found the man not half a mile from where I had left him, and surrounded by natives.