Near sunset, when we had gone about nine miles without finding another watercourse, we went in a more easterly direction.  We continued going on after dark until nearly 2 o’clock on Sunday morning.  After waiting for Jackey and Jemmy, who had stayed behind yesterday, we started at 11.12 without them.  We travelled all day without finding water; but after dark we found a small watercourse which we followed down for about four hours, still without finding water.  Here we encamped.  In the course of the day Jackey and Jemmy overtook us.  Their excuse for being behind was their having turned back to look for a pistol Jackey had lost.  Jemmy I was sorry to find was severely burnt from his clothes having caught fire while he was asleep on the previous night.  I determined to return to water from here as the horses had been two days without any.  After travelling almost incessantly for upwards of seventy-two hours we reached here this morning at 9.  Although there was plenty of water in the creek here there was more lower down, at the place we crossed on our outward route when we were eleven and a half miles south-south-east from Camp 67.  The horses looked wretched when they had been twenty-four hours without water, and as they had been seventy-two hours without water when they reached here they certainly looked most pitiable objects.  Whilst searching for water the weather was most favourable, although sometimes freezingly cold when travelling at night; so much so that to keep ourselves from getting benumbed Mr. Bourne and I often walked.  Being able only to take a small quantity of water with us Jemmy, who was suffering very much from his back, injured by the burning, felt often very thirsty but, poor fellow, we could only spare him a small quantity.  The country we saw on this journey was so bad that I did not wonder at its not being stocked, and only a few tracks of cattle are to be found on it.  The land very level with poor sandy soil.  Where it is not thickly wooded with thick mulga scrub, which chiefly prevails, it is grassed with triodia and wooded with rather broad-leaved ironbark, broad-leaved box, and apple-trees.  The apple-trees we had not previously seen on this expedition.  The obstacles against steering were numerous.  In my outward route I went more to the southward than I intended.  Coming back I came luckily more to the northern, and got water sooner than I otherwise would have done.  We came from Camp 67 and returned here in about the following courses:  May 10:  12.55 south-south-east for eleven and a half miles to creek; at 1 west-south-west for quarter of a mile down the creek.  May 11:  1.50 a.m. south-south-east for twenty-five and a quarter miles.  Started again at 12 a.m., 7.30 east for nineteen miles to creek; 10.5 south-south-east for five miles down the creek.  Length of outward route sixty-one miles.  Returning:  started at 8.40 yesterday morning; 5 p.m. north-west and by west to outward route; 12.8 a.m. north-west for sixteen miles.