The trend of this little creek, and the valley in which it exists, is to the south-east.

Having found water here, we were prepared to find numerous traces of natives, and soon saw old camps and wurleys, and some recent footmarks.

I was exceedingly gratified to find this water, as I hoped it would eventually enable me to get out of the wretched bed of sand and scrub into which we had been forced since leaving the Finke, and which evidently occupies such an enormous extent of territory.

Our horses fed all night close at hand, and we were in our saddles early enough.

I wanted to go west, and the further west the better; but we decided to follow the creek and see what became of it, and if any more waters existed in it.