CHAPTER XI. 
EMBARK STORES — PARTY LEAVE STREAKY BAY — DENSE SCRUB 
— POINT BROWN — SINGULAR WELL PROCESS OF CHANGE 
IN APPEARANCE OF COUNTRY DIG FOR WATER — FRIENDLY 
NATIVES — EXTRAORDINARY RITE — NATIVE GUIDES — 
LEIPOA’S NEST — DENIAL BAY — BEELIMAH GAIPPE — KAN- 
GAROO KILLED — MORE NATIVES — BERINYANA GAIPPE — 
SALT LAKES — WADEMAR GAIPPE — SANDY AND SCRUBBY 
COUNTRY — MOBEELA GAIPPE — DIFFICULTY OF GETTING 
WATER MORE NATIVES — GENUINE HOSPITALITY — SINGU- 
LAR MARKS ON THE ABDOMEN — NATIVES LEAVE THE 
PARTY — FOWLER’S BAY — EXCELLENT WHALING STATION. 
November 4. — To-day the party were occupied 
in sorting and packing stores, which I intended to 
send on board the Waterwitch to Fowler’s Bay, 
that by lightening the loads upon the drays, we 
might the more easily force a passage through the 
dense scrub which I knew we had to pass before we 
reached that point. In the afternoon the men were 
engaged in shearing the remainder of our sheep, 
washing their own clothes and preparing everything 
for breaking up the camp, whilst I rode down to 
Streaky Bay, and went on board the cutter to give 
orders relative to the reception of our stores to- 
morrow. 
The harbour of Streaky Bay is extensive, but 
generally open to the westward. In its most south- 
