To go forward looks very unpromising, and to retreat we have quite seventy miles with scarcely any water and no feed at all.

The prospect is very cheerless, and what I shall do depends on the state of the horses, when they reach here.

It is very discouraging to have to retreat, as Mr.Gosse's farthest point west is only 200 miles from us.

We finished all our rations this morning, and we have been hunting for game ever since twelve o'clock, and managed to get a wurrung and an opossum, the only living creatures seen, and which Windich was fortunate to capture.
LOSS OF HORSES.
5th (Sunday).
Early this morning Windich and I went in search of more water.

Having nothing to eat, it did not take us long to have a little drink of water for our breakfast.