A lifetime was crowded into those few short hours, and death alone may blot out the impressions they produced." The two murderers followed the white man and boy during the first day, evading all Eyre's attempts to bring them to close quarters, and calling to the remaining boy, Wylie, who refused to go to them.

They disappeared the next morning, and must have died miserably of thirst and starvation.
Seven days passed without a drop of water for the horses, before they reached the end of the line of cliffs, and providentially came to a native well amid the sand dunes.

From this point water was more frequently obtained, and what wretched horses they had left showed feeble symptoms of renewed life.

At last, when their rations were completely exhausted, they sighted a ship at anchor in Thistle Cove.

She proved to be the Mississippi, commanded by Captain Rossitur, the whaler already referred to as the first foreign vessel to enter Port Lincoln; and once more Eyre had to give thanks for relief at a most critical moment.
For ten days, in the hospitable cabin of the French whaler, he forgot his sufferings, and regained some of his lost strength.