The Forrest party had encountered a group…

The Forrest party had encountered a group of Aborigines on May 6, who had offered to guide the party to a place where there are many skeletons of horses.

Forrest's team had accompanied this group in a more northerly direction, but after a week of traveling, it had become clear that their destination is Poison Rock, where the explorer Robert Austin was known to have left eleven of his horses for dead in 1854.

They now turn once more towards the location indicated by their guide.

The team had arrived in the location to be searched on May 28.

They next spent almost three weeks surveying and searching an area of about fifteen thousand square kilometers in the desert west of the site of the present-day town of Leonora.

Having found no evidence of Leichhardt's fate, and Mungaro having changed his story and admitted that he had not personally visited the site, they decide to push as far eastwards as they can on their remaining supplies.