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shooting' wallabies; the}^ parted company at the 

 base of a hill^ intending- to g*o round and meet on 

 the other side^ but^ missing- each other^ Jackey re- 

 turned to the camp without his companion. To 

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

 althoug'h we kept up a g'ood fire as a beacon to 

 shew him where we were camped^ and fired a pistol 

 every five minutes during' the nig'ht. 



Aug. 24:fh.— 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, the}^ lost the track. 



They returned in about six hours, hoping* to find 

 liim at the camp, but were disappointed. We now 

 began to fear that our companion was lost, and 

 poor Jackey displayed g'reat uneasiness, fearing* that 

 he mig'ht 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, 

 were just on the point of starting' to renew the 

 search, when to our g'reat 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 stag'e to-day in a 



