The next morning Ruston went back to try and find where Mr.Smith was, but was so weak that (as he thought) he did not go far enough, and did not find him.

Mr.Smith seems to have crawled up into the bush, a little on one side of their route, and there died.
TIMELY DISCOVERY OF THE REST BY MR.ROE.MR.

ROE'S REPORT.
Four days after the rest were picked up by Mr.Roe's party, whose proceedings I shall now relate from his own interesting report; premising that the men had then been three days without water and four days without food, and had nothing to eat but the sweet cane that grows near the beach.
MR.

ROE PROCEEDS IN SEARCH OF THE MISSING MEN.
Mr.Roe says: Leaving Perth early on the 8th instant, accompanied by Mr.E.Spofforth and four men, with the native youths Warrup and Wyip, and five horses, we travelled in a north by west direction along a chain of beautiful lakes, from three to ten miles apart, and surrounded by good soil and grass to a short distance; and in the middle of the third day reached Neergabby on the Garban River, about 52 miles distant.

Giving our horses an hour's rest, I rode forward twelve miles with Mr.Spofforth and Warrup to the mouth of the river, where we hoped to find some traces of the absentees; but to our disappointment and regret not a footmark was to be seen on the sand except those of Woods, and the written directions which had been placed conspicuously on sticks so as to intercept the track of the wanderers were either untouched or washed down by the high tides.
Replacing these with full instructions how to proceed, we returned to our camp at Neergabby, where we were joined by some natives of the district, from whom however no information whatever could be obtained respecting the objects of our search.