Mr.Poole then consulted with Mr.Browne, and it was thought better by both to travel at night, and they accordingly did so.
The country by moonlight appeared more open, and the water seemed to be in greater abundance, as if much more rain had fallen thereabouts than to the south.

They continued a N.N.W.course until daylight, when they halted, and Mr.Browne ascended a sand hill, from whence he saw peaks on the range bearing to the north of east, and the Mount Serle range, bearing due west, distant 50 miles.

The latter circumstance induced Mr.
Poole, when he again resumed his journey, to change his course to west, in the hope that as he had passed the 30th parallel he should find Lake Torrens between himself and the ranges.

Accordingly, on starting at 4 p.m.they went on that course, and halted at dawn on a swampy flat, under a gum-tree.

Mr.Poole subsequently ascertained that the swamp was the head of a little creek falling into the Sandy Lake, where he afterwards terminated his journey.
The country had now assumed a very barren appearance.