From this circumstance, and from our having now travelled a considerable distance beyond the first water, I began to fear that the second which had been spoken of by the natives must, if it existed at all, be behind us instead of in advance, and that in reality the fruit we saw, and not water, was the object for which the natives, whose tracks were around us, were travelling to the westward.

The day was cloudy, and likely for rain, but after a few drops had fallen, the clouds passed away.

In the afternoon the overseer dug behind the sand-ridge, and at six feet came to water, but perfectly salt.
March 19 .-- To-day we travelled onwards for twenty-six miles, through a country exactly similar to that we had passed through yesterday.

At three in the afternoon we halted at an opening when there was abundance of grass, though dry and withered.

The indications of natives having recently passed still continued, and confirmed me in my impression, that they were on a journey to the westward, and from one distant water to another, and principally for the purpose of gathering the fruit.