They apparently formed part of a low range, and bore N.N.W.from him, but his view was very indistinct, and a small cone was the only marked object he could distinguish.

He observed a line of gum-trees extending to the westward, and a solitary signal fire bore due west from him, and threw up a dark column of smoke high into the sky above that depressed interior.

A meridian altitude placed us in latitude 32 degrees 33 minutes 0 seconds S., from which it appeared that we were not more than eight or ten miles from Laidley's Ponds, but we halted short of them, and received visits from a great many of the natives during the afternoon, who came to us with their families, a circumstance which led me to hope that we should get on very well with them.

Poor Toonda here heard of the death of some relative during his absence, and had a great cry over it.

He and the native who communicated the news sat down opposite to one another with crossed legs, and their hands on each other's shoulders.