During our passage down the river we saw no extent of good land in any one place.
STATE OF THE STOCK.
For the next few days we had almost uninterrupted bad weather.

The party were all occupied in preparing the saddles, etc.

The ponies having eaten off the grass in the ravine, we were compelled, about the 28th, to move them to the higher grounds.

These at our first arrival on this coast were perfectly dry and burnt up; but since the heavy rains had set in they teemed with running springs, along the margins of which grew a scanty coating of grass.

Being obliged to send the horses to a distance to graze delayed us a great deal for one portion of our party was occupied in attending upon them.