...arrives back in Perth on August 6.…

...arrives back in Perth on August 6.

The expedition had been absent for one hundred and thirteen days, and had traveled, by Forrest's reckoning, over thirty-six hundred kilometers (twenty-two hundred miles), most of it through uncharted desert.

They had found no sign of Leichhardt, and the country over which they had traveled is useless for farming.

However, Forrest does report that his compass had been affected by the presence of minerals in the ground, and he suggests that the government send geologists to examine the area.

Ultimately, the expedition had achieved very little, but it is of great personal advantage to young Forrest, whose reputation with his superiors, and in the community at large, is greatly enhanced.