Breakfast being over, I sent the overseer and one native to the beach, to try to get a sting-ray, and to the other I gave my gun to shoot wallabie: no fish was procured, but one wallabie was got, half of which I gave to the native who killed it, for his dinner.
Being determined to break up camp on the 27th, I sent the King George's Sound native on a-head, as soon as he had breakfasted, that, by preceding the party, he might have time to spear a sting-ray against we overtook him.

The day was dull, cloudy, and warm, and still looking likely for rain, with the wind at north-east.

At eleven we were ready, and moved away from a place where we had experienced so much relief in our extremity, and at which our necessities had compelled us to remain so long.

For twenty-eight days we had been encamped at the sand-drifts, or at the first water we had found, five miles from them.

Daily, almost hourly, had the sky threatened rain, and yet none fell.