LEAVE STREAKY RAY. 
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erly bight, however, is a secure well sheltered bay, 
for vessels of moderate draught of water ; being 
protected by a long sandy shoal which must be 
rounded before a vessel can enter.* 
November 5. — To-day we were engaged in carting 
down the stores and a supply of water to the cutter, 
which we got safely on board, when I gave written 
instructions to the master to sail at once, and land a 
cask of water, a little higher up the bay, for the use 
of the horses. In the evening the drays were loaded 
and all got ready for our departure to-morrow. 
November 6. — Having had the horses watched last 
night we were enabled to move away early, and 
about noon arrived at the place I had appointed Mr. 
Germain to land the cask of water : it was all ready, 
and we watered the horses, took luncheon and moved 
on again, directing Mr. Germain to proceed to Smoky 
Bay, and land water for us again there. The country 
we passed through to-day was low, level, and sandy, 
and covered with prickly grass, with a few tea-tree 
swamps, but no fresh water. The shore of Streaky 
Bay on its western side was bounded by high steep 
sandy hummocks, behind which we travelled, and at 
night halted on the borders of a dense scrub, nearly 
opposite the middle of the bay, after a stage of about 
* A plan of this harbour was made by Mr. Cannan, one of the 
Government assistant surveyors of South Australia, when sent 
by the Government in a cutter to meet my party with provisions 
in 1839. 
