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FROM WATER PEAK TO PERTH.
(MR.

WALKER'S PARTY.) PARTY SENT IN SEARCH FROM PERTH.
I arrived at Perth on the 21st of April and not a moment was lost in preparing a party to go in search of the men I had left with Mr.Walker, and who, it will be recollected, were instructed to proceed along the coast until they made the Moore River, where assistance was to be sent out to them from Perth.
SEARCH FOR THE OTHER PARTY.
Accordingly on the 23rd of April Lieutenant Mortimer of the 21st regiment and Mr.Spofforth, with four soldiers, left Perth and arrived on the Moore River in two days; but after traversing its banks in vain for two days more they abandoned all hope of finding those they were in search of there, and pursued a straight course about 25 miles further north, when they fell in with another river where they formed a depot, and detours were made in various directions for several days without any avail.
RETURN WITH CHARLES WOODS.
At length, on one of these excursions, the seaman Charles Woods, one of my party, was found by Mr.Spofforth, lying on the beach, wrapped in his blanket and fast asleep.

He soon awoke and was not a little delighted to recognise Mr.Spofforth whom he had seen before at Fremantle.

By the account Woods gave it appears that from the period of my departure much disorder and discontent at the direction of their course prevailed among the men.