On arriving at the Mauritius, Lieutenant Grey dismissed the Lynher schooner, and took some time to recover from the effects of his wound and his fatigues, and to recruit the strength of his men. But the ardour of discovery had not been damped by his sufferings, and he still contemplated prosecuting the courses of the Fitzroy and Glenelg rivers, which had been simultaneously discovered by Captain Wickham and himself. By the sound advice of Sir William Nicolay, the Governor of the Mauritius, he was induced, however, for the present, to forego this enterprise, and to return to Swan River, and there consult with the Governor, Sir James Stirling. He therefore embarked at Port Louis, on the 21st of August, 1838, and arrived on the 18th of September, at Swan River. There he remained till the middle of February, 1839, waiting in vain for a proper vessel to convey himself and men to Shark's Bay, which he proposed to make his point of departure on his new expedition. During this period, however, he employed himself in making acquaintance with the natives and their language in Western Australia. He also set out on a journey in search of Mr. Elliott, who had proceeded from the Williams River to the Leschenault, and was supposed to be lost in the bush. The Williams is in the interior; the Leschenault on the coast and between the two rivers; the Darling Range, a high chain of mountains which had never before been crossed at that point.