Upon reaching the river we camped.
My expedition was over.

I had failed certainly in my object, which was to penetrate to the sources of the Murchison River, but not through any fault of mine, as I think any impartial reader will admit.

Our outgoing tracks were very indistinct, but yet recognisable; we camped again at Number 1.

Our next line was nearly east, along the course of the Finke, passing a few miles south of Chambers's Pillar.

I had left it but twelve weeks and four days; during that interval I had traversed and laid down over a thousand miles of previously totally unknown country.