208 LIEUTENANT GREY. 



for though none were, perhaps, fully aware of it, 

 a feeling of despondency as to the fate of himself 

 and his companions, had more than once occurred 

 to me, which each day's delay much increased, 

 and which this agreeable rencounter at once eflPec- 

 tuallv removed. Poor fellow ! gaunt misery had 

 worn him to the bone ; and I believe, that in any 

 other part of the world, not myself alone, but 

 Lieutenant Grey's most intimate friends, would have 

 stared at him without the least approach to recog- 

 nition. Badly wounded, and half starved, he 

 did, indeed, present a melancholy contrast to the 

 vigorous and determined enthusiast we had parted 

 from a few months before at the Cape, to whom 

 danger seemed to have a charm, distinct from 

 success. 



No sooner had we ascertained the safety of the 

 rest of the party, than, as might be supposed, we 

 fell into a long and animated conversation upon the 

 success of the expedition. They had discovered a 

 river, called by them the Glenelg, and a tract of 

 fine country, which, from Lieut. Grey's description, 

 I instantly recognised as being the same Mr. Help- 

 man had seen from Brecknock Harbour. 



A spot, sixty miles in a S.S.E. direction from 

 Hanover Bay, indicates their furthest distance 

 towards the interior. The rugged nature of the 

 country in the neighbourhood of this coast, and its 

 vast distance from the interior, from whence it is 

 further removed than any other part of the continent, 



