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shooting- wallabies- tliey parted company at tli^ 

 base of a bill, intending- to g-o round and meet on 

 tbe other side, but, missing- each other, Jackey re- 

 turned to the camp without his companion. To 

 our g-reat alarm Goddard did not return all nig'ht, 

 althoug'h we kept up a good fire as a beacon to 

 shew him where we were camped, and tired a pistol 

 every five minutes during- the nig-ht. 



Aug. 24:th. — Three of our party, accompanied by 

 Jackey, rode to the spot where the latter had left 

 Goddard on the previous day, intending-, if possible, 

 to track him, and succeeded in doing- so for some 

 distance to the eastward, but then coming- to some 

 stony g-round, they lost the track. 



They returned in about six hours, hoping- to find 

 him at the camp, but were disappointed. We now 

 beg-an to fear that our companion was lost, and 

 poor Jackey displayed g-reat uneasiness, fearing- that 

 he mig'lit be blamed for leaving- him, and repeatedly 

 saying- that he did not wish Goddard to leave the 

 camp at all, and that he had waited for him some 

 time on the opposite side of the hill, where they were 

 to meet. Four fresh horses were saddled, and 

 Jackey, with Mr. Kennedy, Wall, and Mitchell, 

 Avere just on the point of starting- to renew the 

 search, when to our great joy we observed him at a 

 distance, approaching- the camp. It would have 

 been sadly discouraging* to the whole party to have 

 lost one of our companions in so wild and desolate 

 a spot. We made but a short stage to-day in a 



