We believed that we would get good water here but when
we dug a soak the water turned out pretty foul and smelt. However
as this was the only water we had seen that day we had to make it
do. We were carrying an eight gallon drum on the pack camel so
we were not seriously inconvenienced. Rain again threatened but
once again it fell somewhere else if it fell at all.
The boy was given his ration of flour and tea and sugar and a
little jam and we turned in pretty early after baking the
evening damper.
