Returned at sundown.
12th.
Erected the flagstaff with the Union Jack flying, and nailed a copper plate to the staff, with the following engraved on it:-- WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

ERECTED BY J.FORREST, JULY 12TH, 1870.
From the flagstaff, Wilson's Bluff bore North 70 degrees 15 minutes East magnetic, and the Black Beacon North 246 degrees 20 minutes East magnetic, and it is situated in latitude 31 degrees 41 minutes 50 seconds South.
13th.
There was a total eclipse of the moon in the morning.

All busy preparing for a start for the Head of the Bight to-morrow.

Buried a cask eight feet west of flagstaff, containing 100 pounds flour, 130 pounds barley, 16 new sets of horse-shoes, shoeing nails, etc.

Nailed a plate on flagstaff, with DIG 8 FEET WEST on it.