102 CONTEMPLATED ROUTE. [CH. IV. 



our resGcarches with the hoat, if we could possibly find water 

 sufficient for the purpose. This method of proceeding was 

 contemplated in my original plan on leaving Sydney, when 

 I hoped to reach a navigable stream, where the cattle might 

 refresh for the return journey, until the party, thus enabled 

 to extend its operations by water, might fall back on some 

 such depot. 



