Spinifex for the first fourteen miles, and miserable country.

The prospect ahead not very promising.

Barometer 28.06; thermometer 83 degrees at 5 p.m.
Every appearance of rain.

Latitude 26 degrees 8 minutes 31 seconds South, longitude about 119 degrees 18 minutes East.
15th.
Raining lightly this morning.

I did not proceed, but gave the horses rest.
16th.
Continued east for five miles, when we found three of the horses were missing; returned with Windich, and found them near camp, having never started at all.