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give each of the horses three pints ; we then pushed 
on again, hoping to reach the camp, but getting 
entangled among the scrub, were obliged at mid- 
night to halt until daylight appeared, being almost 
as much exhausted as the horses, and quite as much 
in want of water, for we had not tasted the little 
that had been procured from the hole found in the 
plains. 
November 25. — At the first streak of daylight we 
moved on, and in one mile and a half reached the 
camp near Point Fowler, before any of the party 
were up. We had guessed our course well in the 
dark last night, and could not have gone more 
direct had it been daylight. Having called up the 
party and made them get a hasty breakfast, I 
hurried off a dray loaded with water, and accompa- 
nied by the overseer, one man, and the black boy, to 
follow up our tracks to where the tired horse had 
been tied. During my absence I found that every 
thing but the cart had been landed from the cutter, 
and safely brought up to the camp, and that as soon 
as that was on shore she would be ready to go and 
lie at anchor at Denial Bay. 
About noon I was greatly surprised and vexed to 
see my overseer return driving the loose horses before 
him. It seemed that whilst feeding around the 
camp they had observed the dray and other horses 
going away and had followed upon the tracks, so 
that the overseer had no alternative but to drive 
them back to the camp. This was very unfortunate, 
