The western horizon was now bounded by low ridges, continuous for many miles.

I decided to make for our last camp on the creek, distant some five-and-twenty miles north-east.

At five miles after starting, we came upon a mass of eucalypts which were not exactly gum-trees, though of that family, and I thought this might be the end of the exhausted creek channel, only the timber grew promiscuously on the tops of the sandhills, as in the lower ground between them.

There was no appearance of any flow of water ever having passed by these trees, and indeed they looked more like gigantic mallee-trees than gums, only that they grew separately.

They covered a space of about half a mile wide.