EMBARK FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA. Ill 
offer of assistance or accommodation which it was in 
their power to render. 
Finding that a vessel would shortly sail for Adelaide, 
I at once engaged my passage, and proceeded to 
make arrangements for leaving King George’s Sound. 
To the Governor of the Colony, Mr. Hutt, 1 wrote 
a brief report of my journey, which was forwarded, 
with a copy both of my own and Wylie’s depo- 
sitions, relative to the melancholy loss of my over- 
seer on the 29th April. I then had my horses got up 
from the King’s river, and left them in the care of 
Mr. Phillips, who had in the most friendly manner 
offered to take charge of them until they recovered 
their condition and could be sold. 
Wylie was to remain at the Sound with his friends, 
and to receive from the Government a weekly allow- 
ance of provisions, # by order of Mr. Phillips ; who 
promised to recommend that it should be perma- 
nently continued, as a reward for the fidelity and 
good conduct he had displayed whilst accompanying 
me in the desert. 
On the I3th July I wished my friends good bye, 
and in the afternoon went on board the Truelove to 
sail for Adelaide ; whilst working out of harbour we 
were accompanied as long as any of the shore boats 
remained, by some of the natives of the place, who 
were most anxious to have gone with me to Ade- 
laide. Wylie had given them so flattering an 
account of South Australia and its pleasures, that he 
* This was confirmed by Governor Hutt. 
