For a time the ridges were smooth on their sides, and a quantity of young green grass was springing up on them.

At nine miles we crossed some stony plains, and halted after a ride of 26 miles without water.
On the 15th a strong and bitterly cold wind blew from the westward as we passed through a country differing in no material respect from that of the day before.

Spinifex generally covered the sand ridges, which looked like ocean swells rising before us, and many were of considerable height.
At six miles we came to a small pool of water, where we breakfasted.

On leaving this we dug a hole and let the remainder of the water into it, in the hope of its longer continuance, and halted after a long journey in a valley in which there was a kind of watercourse with plenty of water, our latitude being 28 degrees 21 minutes 39 seconds.

Before we left this place we cut a deep square hole, into which as before we drained the water, that by diminishing its surface we might prevent the too speedy evaporation of it, in case of our being forced back from the want of water in the interior, since that element was becoming more scarce every day.