44 JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY INTO 



S., or thereabouts, the general direction then was S.E. to Eussell Eange, 

 longitude 123° 28', latitude 33° 30'. The return from this point was 

 near to, or parallel with, the south coast (with occasional deviation) to 

 Cape Eiche, at no great distance from which, on the Fitzgerald River, 

 the coal was detected, — Eb. 



My letter* of 12th October, 1849, from Cape Riche, will have made 

 you acquainted with our movements up to that date. On the 14th of 

 the same month, having rested those of our horses that required it, 

 supplied ourselves with materials for light calico and dungaree tents^ 

 instead of the heavier ones we had brought from Perth, and discarded 

 every article we could possibly dispense with, we took leave of our 

 hospitable friends, Mr. and Mrs. Cheyne, and started from Cape Eiche 

 with ninety days' supplies for six persons, and three hundred pounds 

 of horse-corn ; the whole to be carried by our eleven horses, who were 

 to complete their bait at the first well-grassed spot which appeared 

 suited for the purpose. Such a place presented itself on the 15th at 

 Yunganup, on the Pallinup Eiver, and we remained there until the 

 morning of the 18th, completing our preparations. It is in latitude 

 34^ 24' 6'^ S., 15 miles N. by E. from Mr. Cheyne's farm, and has a 

 limited quantity of excellent grass, in a small valley tributary to the 

 Pallinup, which was here slightly brackish, in long, deep pools, 80 or 

 90 yards across, abounding in black swans, ducks, and teal. While at 

 the camp, a Cape Eiche native, known as "Bob," who had engaged to 

 form one of our party to the eastward, was visited by several of his 

 friends from Doubtful Island Bay and other parts, including two who 

 had walked with him from what he represented to be the neighbour- 

 hood of Middle Island ; but as I could gather from them nothing more 

 as to the nature of the interior country than Bob himself was able to 

 communicate, I cUd not regret my inability to engage the proffered 

 services of one of the two, who offered to accompany me also, and who 

 had previously gone with Mr. Bland and Dr. Yon Sommer to the neigh- 

 bourhood of Mounts Barren. 



Despatching by them to Cape Eiche our final letters for the Swan, 

 with a suitable inducement to ensure a safe delivery, we began on the 

 evening of the 18th to ascend the Pallinup, in the hope and belief it 



would lead us to the N.E. In seven miles we quitted the main river. 



meut. 



Secretary 



