The wind having settled in its old quarter the E.S.E., in this latitude was not so cold as we had felt it in a more northerly one.

Why it should have been so, it is difficult to say: we know the kind of country over which an E.S.E.wind must pass between the coast and the latitude of Fort Grey, and could not expect that it should be other than hot, but we are ignorant of the kind of country over which it may sweep higher up to the north.

Can it be that there is a large body of water in that quarter?
We shall soon have to record something to strengthen that supposition.

About this period the sky was generally cloudy, and, as I have before remarked, in any other region it would have rained, but here only a few drops fell, no signs of which remained half an hour afterwards; the barometer, however, was very low, and it was not unreasonable to have encouraged hopes of a favourable change.
On the 3rd the natives who had visited the camp before our return, again came, together with the young boy who Davenport suspected had stolen his blanket.

He charged him with the theft, therefore, and told him not to return to the tents again without it, explaining at the same time what he had said, to the other natives.