Mr.Browne's feelings I am sure corresponded with my own, so we got up and left him, with an intention on my part to return when I thought he had cooled down to make him some presents, but when we did so he had departed with all his family, and returned not to the neighbourhood again.

We had preserved two or three of the fish, and in the hope of making the women understand us better, produced them, on which they eagerly tried to snatch them from us, but did not succeed.
They were evidently anxious to get them to eat, and I mention the fact, though perhaps telling against my generosity on the occasion, to prove how rare such a feast must be to them.
As I had foreseen, our horses finished all the water in the puddle during the night, and we left at seven in the following morning, taking up our usual N.N.W.course, from which, up to this point we had not deviated.

We passed for about eight miles through open box-tree forest, with a large grassy flat, backed by sand hills to the right.

The country indeed had an appearance of improvement.

There was grass under the trees, and the scenery as we rode along was really cheerful.