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CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER XII. 
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Land the stores and send the Cutter to Denial Bay — Party remove to 
Point Fowler — Leave the Party — Beds of Lakes — Dense scrub — 
Coast sand-drifts — Fruitless search for water— Distress of the 
horses— Turn back — Leave a horse — Find water — Rejoin Party — 
Send for the horse — Country around depot — Take a dray to the 
westward — Wretched country — Fall in with Natives — Misunderstand 
their signs — They leave us — Vain search for water — Turn back — 
Horse knocked up — Go back for water — Rejoin the dray — Commence 
return — Search for water — Dray surrounded by natives — Embarrass- 
ing situation — Bury baggage — Three horses abandoned — Reach the 
sand-drifts — Unsuccessful attempts to save the horses — Send for 
fresh horses— Search for water to north-east — Recover the dray and 
stores — Rejoin the party at depot near Point Fowler — Return of the 
Cutter . . . . 229 
CHAPTER XIII. 
Future Plans— Reduce the number of the Party— Send the Cutter to 
Adelaide — Report to the Governor— Monotonous life at camp — 
Remove to another locality — Geological character of the country — 
Flint found — Again attempt to reach the Head of the Bight — Reach 
the sand-hills, and bury flour — Friendly Natives — Exhausted state 
of the horses — Get the dray to the plain — Bury water — Send back 
dray — Proceed with pack-horse— Oppressive heat — Send back pack- 
horse— Reach the Head of the Bight — Surprise some Natives — Their 
kind behaviour — Yeer-kumban-kauwe — Their account of the in- 
terior ... . 256 
CHAPTER XIV. 
Proceed to the westward — Cliffs of the Great Bight— Level nature of 
the interior — Flints abound — Return to Yeer-kumban-kauwe — 
Natives come to the camp — Their generous conduct — Meet the 
Overseer — Return to depot — Bad water — Move back to Fowler’s 
Bay — Arrival of the Cutter Hero — Joined by the King George’s 
Sound Native— Instructions relative to the Hero — Difficulty of fixing 
upon any future plan — Break up the Expedition and divide the 
party — Mr. Scott embarks — Final report — The Hero sails — Overseer 
and Natives remain — Excursion to the North — A Native joins us — 
Sudden illness in the party — Final preparations for leaving the 
dep6t . . ... 284 
