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POINT MALCOLM. 
found excellent water at three and a half feet, and 
halted for the day, after a stage of five miles. Un- 
fortunately we were now beyond all grass, and had 
to send the horses by a long and difficult road to it, 
over steep sandy ridges, densely covered by scrub. 
Upon halting, one of our horses lay down, appear- 
ing to be very ill, for two hours I could not get him 
to rise, and was sadly afraid he would die, which 
would have been a serious loss to us, for he was the 
strongest one we had left. A little inside Point 
Malcolm, I found traces of Europeans who had slept 
on shore near the beach, and upon one of the tea-trees, 
I found cut “ Ship Julian, 1840,” “ Haws, 1840,” 
“ C. W.” and some few other letters, which I did 
not copy. The forenoon continued very wild and 
stormy, with occasional showers of rain, and as we 
could get neither firewood nor shelter at our camp, 
and the sand eddied around us in showers, we were 
very miserable. After dinner, I sent Wylie out with 
the rifle, to try to shoot a kangaroo, whilst I took a 
walk round, to look for grass, and to ascertain 
whether water could not be procured in some place 
nearer the horses, and better provided with firewood 
and shelter. My efforts were without success, nor 
did I meet with better fortune, in examining Point 
Malcolm, to see if there was any place where we 
could fish from the shore, the point itself was of 
granite, but on the sheltered side the water was very 
shoal, close to the shore, whilst on the outer side the 
waves were breaking with frightful violence, and the 
