Barometer 28.78; thermometer 77 degrees at 6 P.M.
6th.
Three of the natives accompanied us to-day.

We travelled east for six miles, when I ascended a rise and could see a river to the north and south; the one to the north the natives say has fresh water.

As the natives say there is plenty of water ahead, North 70 degrees East, we continued onwards to a hill, which I named Mount Maitland.

After about twenty miles we reached it, but found the spring to be bad, and after digging no water came.

For our relief I tied up the horses for some time before letting them go.