We found the northern face of the ridges just as waterless as the southern, which we had previously searched.

The far hills or ridges to the west, which I now intended to visit, bore nearly west.

Another salt bush plain was next crossed; this was nearly three miles long.

We now gave the horses an hour's spell, the thermometer showing 102 degrees in the shade; then, re-saddling, we went on, and it was nine o'clock at night when we found ourselves under the shadows of the hills we had steered for, having them on the north of us.
I searched in the dark, but could find no feature likely to supply us with water; we had to encamp in a nest of triodia without any water, having travelled forty-eight miles through the usual kind of country that occupies this region's space.

At daylight the thermometer registered 70 degrees, that being the lowest during the night.