With bitter feelings of disappointment I turned from the dreary and cheerless scene around me, and pushing the horses on as well as circumstances would allow, succeeded in retracing ten miles of my course by a little after dark, having completed a stage of fully forty-five miles during the day.

Here there was tolerable good grass, and plenty of water from the late rains, so that the horses were more fortunate on this excursion than usual.

I observed the variation to be 4 degrees E.
September 3 .-- Travelling early, we made a long stage of about forty miles, and encamped with good grass and water.

During the day we caught four young emus in the plains, which we roasted for supper, being very hungry, and upon short allowance, as I had not calculated upon remaining out so long; the black boy enjoyed them exceedingly, and I managed to get through one myself.

They were about the size of full grown fowls.
September 4 .-- Making a very early start, we travelled twenty miles to the watercourse, where we had encamped on the 31st of August, striking it a little lower down.