At this we breakfasted and watered the horses, and then pushed on.

The lodgment of this water had been caused by local drainage, and was evident from the green feed round about.

Here again it appeared we had occasion to be thankful, for on this supply I hoped we might safely calculate for a week at least, so that we still held on our course with more confidence, keeping at the base of the ridge, and passing an extent of five miles through an open box-tree forest, every tree of which was dead.

The whole scene being one of the most profound silence and marked desolation, for here no living thing was to be seen.
At nine miles we ascended the ridge, and from it the Desert appeared to be interminable from N.to N.E., but a few distant sand hills now shewed themselves to the eastward of the last mentioned point.

We then descended into a valley of sand and spinifex, and at four miles and a half ascended an elevated peak in a sandy ridge lying in our way.