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son went at 8, ours at 10, Bowers, Oatcs and Co. at 1 1.15. 
Just after starting picked up cheerful note and saw 
cheerful notices saying all well with motors, both going 
excellently. Day wrote < Hope to meet in 8o° 30' (Lat.).' 
Poor chap, within 2 miles he must have had to sing a 
different tale. It appears they had a bad ground on the 
morning of the 29th. I suppose the surface was bad and 
everything seemed to be going wrong. They * dumped ' 
a good deal of petrol and lubricant. Worse was to follow. 
Some 4 miles out we met a tin pathetically inscribed, 
* Big end Day's motor No. 2 cylinder broken.' Half a 
mile beyond, as I expected, we found the motor, its 
tracking sledges and all. Notes from E. Evans and Day 
told the talc. The only spare had been used for Lashly's 
machine, and it would have taken a long time to strip 
Day's engine so that it could run on three cylinders. They 
had decided to abandon it and push on with the other 
alone. They had taken the six bags of forage and some 
odds and ends, besides their petrol and lubricant. So the 
dream of great help from the machines is at an end ! 
The track of the remaining motor goes steadily forward, 
but now, of course, I shall expect to sec it every hour of 
the march. 
The ponies did pretty well — a cruel soft surface most 
of the time, but light loads, of course. Jehu is better 
than I expected to find him, Chinaman not so well. They 
arc bad crocks both of them. 
It was pretty cold during the night, -7 0 when wc 
camped, with a crisp breeze blowing. The ponies don't 
like it, but now, as I write, the sun is shining through a 
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