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 — INSTRUC- 
TIONS 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 RE- 
MAIN-EXCURSION TO THE NORTH A NATIVE JOINS US 
SUDDEN ILLNESS IN THE PARTY — FINAL PREPARA- 
TIONS FOR LEAVING THE DEPOT. 
January 10. — We left Yeer-kumban-kauwe early, 
and proceeding to the westward, passed through 
an open level tract of country, of from three to four 
hundred feet in elevation, and terminating seawards 
abruptly, in bold and overhanging cliffs, which had 
been remarked by Captain Flinders, but which upon 
our nearer approach, presented nothing very remark- 
able in appearance, being only the sudden termina- 
tion of a perfectly level country, with its outer face 
washed, steep and precipitous, by the unceasing lash 
of the southern ocean. The upper surface of this 
country, like that of all we had passed through 
lately, consisted of a calcareous oolitic limestone, 
