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OBTAIN WATER. 
with three horses, carrying seventy gallons of water 
to assist me in again endeavouring to get round the 
Bight. As the road was very scrubby, and much 
impeded by fallen timber, I had previously sent on 
a man to clear it a little ; and about ten o’clock I 
followed with the native boy. We got tolerably 
well through the scrub, and encamped in a plain 
about sixteen miles from the depot, where there was 
good grass. The weather being cool and showery, 
our horses would not drink more than a bucket each 
from the casks. 
November 29. — Having moved on the dray early 
over rather a heavy road, we took up our quarters 
under the white sand -drifts, after a stage of nine 
miles. I then left the boy in charge of the camp, 
and proceeded myself with the two men, and pro- 
vided with spades and buckets, to where the over- 
seer had obtained water by digging ; the place was 
about two miles from our camp, between the sand- 
drifts and the sea, and immediately behind the front 
ridges of the coast. By enlarging the hole, and 
sinking a tub bored full of holes, we managed to 
water the horses, and get a supply for ourselves. 
In the afternoon an attempt was made to dig a well 
nearer the camp, but a stratum of rock put an end 
to our labours. 
November 30. — Sending back one of the men to 
the depot, I left the native boy to guide the dray, 
whilst I diverged towards the coast to look for 
water among the sand-drifts, that were seen occa- 
