We presented arms; sang God Save the Queen vigorously, and fired a salute of twenty-one guns, finishing with three cheers.

I venture to record that our vocal efforts were as sincerely and heartily made in the Australian wilderness as any which rang that day in any part of her Majesty's wide dominions.

We were all highly delighted--not only feeling that we had done our duty as loyal subjects, but other celebrations in more civilized places were forcibly recalled to memory.
I had fixed the 30th as the time for our fresh start, and we had enough to do in packing bags, and making general repairs and improvements in our outfit.

Eucla Bay, the only other point at which we should be able to communicate with the coaster, was 350 miles to the east of Israelite Bay.
The nature of the country was quite unknown, except so far as indicated by the not very encouraging record of Eyre's journey.

We felt that we should inevitably have to encounter considerable difficulties, and perhaps even fail to reach Eucla.