ed to keep a
constant look out on the beach and hoist concerted signals.

For two days after Mr. Walker left them it appears they wandered about to
look for water and then fished. They fortunately fell in with a cask of
water, washed up on the beach, from which they filled their canteens,
roasted the fish and started on again, but made no distance. This lasted
for several days. They subsisted by picking up a few shellfish and some
dead birds which had been washed ashore, and they ate a sort of cane that
grows near the beach, and the Hottentot fig.

DEATH OF MR. SMITH.

Mr. Smith now gradually became exhausted, and at last one evening sat
down on a bank, and said he could not go on. He was behind the party with
Ruston, who thought he was dying, and went on and told the other men. 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 th