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Mr. Oxley stopped, it would not be prudent to risk your 
own health or that of yOur men, by continuing long in a 
swampy country. Therefore it may be advisable for you in 
the first instance to leave the greater part of your men, 
bullocks, and baggage, at Mount Harris, and if you should 
see a probability of your being able to cross into the 
interior, you will then return to Mount Harris for such ad- 
ditional supplies as you may judge necessary. You can 
there communicate with Mr. Maxwell respecting any 
ulterior arrangements which you may be desirous of 
making. 
8. The success of the expedition is so desirable an object, that 
I cannot too strongly impress upon you the importance of 
perseverance in endeavouring to skirt any waters or marshes 
which may check your course as long as you have provisions 
sufficient for your return ; but you must be cautious not to 
proceed a single day’s journey further than where you find 
that your provisions will be barely sufficient to enable you 
to reach the nearest place at which you can depend upon 
getting supplies. 
9. If after every endeavour you should find it totally imprac- 
table to get to the westward, you are still to proceed 
northward, keeping as westerly a direction as possible ; and 
when the state of your provisions will oblige you to retreat, 
you will be guided by your latitude, as to the place to which 
you are to make the best of your way, but you are not to 
make for any place on the coast, if Wellington valley 
should still be nearer. 
10. You must be aware that the success of the expedition will 
greatly depend upon the time for which your provisions 
