Great numbers of the dead fish were floating upon the water.

Here we met a considerable number of natives, and although the women would not come close, several of the men did, and made themselves useful by holding some of the horses' bridles and getting firewood.

Most of them had names given them by their godfathers at their baptism, that is to say, either by the officers or men of the Overland Telegraph Construction parties.

This was my thirty-second camp; I called it Rogers's Pass; twenty-two miles was our day's stage.

From here two conspicuous semi-conical hills, or as I should say, truncated cones, of almost identical appearance, caught my attention; they bore nearly south 60 degrees east.
(ILLUSTRATION: JUNCTION OF THE PALMER AND FINKE.) Bidding adieu to our sable friends, who had had breakfast with us and again made themselves useful, we started for the twins.