At about noon we found some water in a gully by scratching a hole, but it was quite salt.

As our horses would not drink it, it can be imagined how salt it was.

We drank about a pint of it, and Windich said it was the first time he ever had to drink salt water.

I washed myself in it, which refreshed me a little.

Our horses could not go much further without water, but we crawled along about north, and shortly afterwards found a small rock hole in the side of a large rough granite hill, with about five gallons of good water in it.