159. How long did you remain after that before there was a final start again?--I believe we started two or three days after that. Mr. Wills went out a second time from that camp with King and only two camels to bring down those things that he had left where he lost the camels.
160. How far was that from the creek?--Ninety miles.
161. And he went out with King and two camels for the things that he had left behind when he lost his camels and brought them back? --Yes; and on the same day, or the day after, when Mr. Wills went out on that second journey, Mr. Burke removed the depot to the lower place.
162. Did those camels lost by Mr. Wills ever turn up?--I believe two of them have been found near Adelaide.
163. In the meantime you went down to the last depot?--Yes.
164. How long did you remain there?--Mr. Burke started from there about five or six days after Mr. Wills returned from that second journey.
My son gives his own account of the exploration when the camels were lost, in the following letter to his sister:--
Cooper's Creek, December 6th, 1860. Latitude 27 degrees 36 minutes, Longitude 141 degrees 30 seconds.
MY DEAR BESSY,