Did not know any place named Noondie; but pointed to water a little way eastward.

Jemmy then asked him all manner of questions, but to no purpose, as he stated he knew nothing about the business.

Jemmy asked him if he had ever heard of any horses being eaten; he answered No, but that the natives had just eaten his brother! I have no doubt parents have great difficulty in saving their children from these inhuman wretches.

Then the old man tried to cry, and ended by saying he had two women at his hut, a little westward.

After travelling ten miles from our last night's bivouac, and not finding water, we struck North 204 degrees East magnetic for about twenty miles, through scrubby thickets, without feed, and arrived at the bivouac of the 2nd, where the party will meet us to-morrow.