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and considering that as yet we had advanced only 
one hundred and twenty-six miles from the last 
water, I felt convinced that we had still very far to 
go before we could expect to reach the sand-drifts. 
The supply of water we had brought for ourselves 
was nearly exhausted, and we could afford none for 
breakfast to-day ; the night, however, had been 
cool, and we did not feel the want of it so much. 
Upon moving, I sent one of the natives back to the 
horse I had tied up, about four miles from our camp 
to try to bring him on to where we should halt in 
the middle of the day. 
For ten miles we continued along the beach until 
we came to a bluff rocky ridge, running close into 
the sea ; here we rested until the tide fell, and to 
give the native boy an opportunity of rejoining us, 
which he did soon after, but without the horse; 
the poor animal had travelled about eight miles 
with him from the place where we had left him, but 
had then been unable to come any further, and he 
abandoned him. 
Whilst the party were in camp, I sent the over- 
seer to a distant point of land to try and get a view 
of the coast beyond ; but upon his return, after a 
long walk, he told me his view to the west was ob- 
structed by a point similar to the one I had sent him 
to. During the day, we had passed a rather recent 
native encampment, where were left some vessels of 
bark for holding water, or for collecting it from the 
roots of trees, or the grass. Near where we halted 
