ABSTRACT OF LABOUR. 
291 
possibility of getting inland, and my own expe- 
rience told me that I could never hope to take a 
loaded dray through the dreadful country I had 
already traversed on horseback. What then was I 
to do ? or how proceed for the future ? The follow- 
ing brief abstract of the labours of the party, and 
the work performed by the horses in the three 
attempts made to get round the head of the Great 
Bight, may perhaps seem incredible to those who 
know nothing of the difficulty of forcing a passagfe 
through such a country as we were in, and amidst all 
the disadvantages we were under, from the season 
of the year and other causes. 
ABSTRACT OF LABOURS OF THE PARTY IN ROUNDING 
THE GREAT BIGHT. 
Names. 
Distances ridden. 
No. of days employed. 
Mr Eyre .... 
643 miles 
40 
Mr. Scott .... 
50 „ 
4 
The Overseer . . . 
230 ,, 
22 
Costelow .... 
.... 
22 
Houston .... 
12 
Corporal Coles . . 
. . . 
8 
Eldest native boy 
270 „ 
19 
Youngest native boy 
395 } , 
23 
A dray loaded with water was drawn backwards 
and forwards 238 miles ; many of the horses, in addi- 
tion to the distances they were ridden, or worked in 
the dray, were driven loose, in going or returning, 
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