I felt rejoiced and relieved from anxiety; and on reflecting on the long line of travel we had performed through an unknown country, almost a wilderness, felt very thankful to that good Providence that had guarded and guided us so safely through it.
The telegraph line is most substantially put up, and well wired, and is very creditable at this spot; large poles of bush timber, often rather crooked, and iron ones here and there.

I now gave up keeping watch, having kept it regularly for the last six months.

Marked a tree F 104, being 104th camp from Geraldton.

We had not much to refresh the inner man with, only damper and water, but we have been used to it now more than a month, and do not much feel it.

The horses are all very tired, and many of them have sore backs.