"My first and second expeditions," says Giles, "were conducted entirely with horses, but in all subsequent journeys I was accompanied by camels." His object, like that of Leichhardt, was to force his way across the thousand miles of country that lay untrodden and unknown between the Australian telegraph line and the settlements upon the Swan River.

And Giles remarks that the exploration of 1000 miles in Australia is equal to at least 10,000 miles on any other part of the earth's surface--always excepting the Poles.
I continued residing on the shores of the lagoon in the hope that my patient would eventually get better, when I proposed continuing my journey north.

I was still quite unable to understand his babblings, although he was for ever mentioning the names of persons and places unknown to me; and he constantly spoke about some exploring party.

He never asked me questions, nor did he get into serious trouble with the natives, being privileged.

He never developed any dangerous vices, but was simply childlike and imbecile.
Gradually I had noticed that, instead of becoming stronger, he was fading away.