They now again turned into the interior, being, as they thought, at the bay to the south of Jurieu Bay.

April 23.

They returned and kept along the beach, made about fifteen miles, when they halted close to it.

April 24.

They went on for five or six miles, then halted and made a fire with the end of a spar.

April 25.

They travelled two or three hundred yards.  Mr. Walker went back for the end of the spar and Mr. Smith cut some firewood.  There they halted, catching fish and crabs.

April 26 and 27.

Still halted at this spot, fishing, and caught parrot-fish, rock-cod, etc.; so that they had as much fish as they could use, and found fresh water in the holes of the rocks.

April 28.

They started at dawn and went on for a mile.  Ruston was taken ill from the number of crabs he had eaten, and Mr. Walker stopped with him whilst the other three went on a mile ahead and got fish and periwinkles.  Mr. Smith, Stiles, and Clotworthy had a little water left; Ruston and Mr. Walker had canteens half-full.  Ruston got better in the evening but they did not proceed until the next morning.

April 29.

Mr. Walker moved on with Ruston about a mile and there found Mr. Smith clambering up some rocks, and having plenty of periwinkles, of which he gave them some.  Clotworthy had stopped up all night and had picked up enough for four or five days.  At night at low tide they got nearly fresh water running out from under the rocks.

April 30.

They still halted, living on the periwinkles; but this evening the water was more salt.

May 1.

This day the party separated into two portions and did not meet again until the 2nd, on which day Mr. Walker left them by agreement, he being the strongest of the party.  His object was to proceed as expeditiously as he could to Fremantle and send from thence a boat and fresh water for the relief of the rest.  The party he left behind having agreed 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.