ROE.
Lieutenant Mortimer's party, having made every exertion but in vain to find the five remaining persons, were compelled at the end of a fortnight by want of provisions to return to Perth, where they arrived on the 6th of May; and early the next morning the Surveyor-General, Mr.Roe, accompanied by Mr.Spofforth (who again volunteered his services) four men, and two native youths, with five horses, set out in search of those still missing.
ARRIVAL OF MR.

WALKER AT PERTH.

JOURNAL OF MR.

WALKER'S PARTY.
On the 9th of May, two days after the departure of Mr.Roe's party, Mr.
Walker came into Perth alone, and from his statement, together with what was gleaned subsequently from the other men, I shall here briefly narrate what befel them after my departure on the 10th of April.
NARRATIVE OF THEIR PROCEEDINGS FROM WATER PEAK.
On the next day they started at dawn and soon came to a great deal of scrub; this was the belt of thick wood mentioned in my journal.

Mr.
Walker says the men, being disheartened at this, they went down to the beach and halted about a mile from it; Water Peak Hill being distant about fifteen miles.