I therefore sat up and watched them until half past eight, after which I tied them up to some bushes.

At one o'clock I again got up and let them loose, hoping they might feed a little better in the cool of the night.
The scud was rapidly passing the moon, and I watched for hours the clouds gathering to the south and passing to the north, but no rain fell.
March 9 .-- Moving on early we passed through a similar country to that we had before traversed; but there was more of the tea-tree scrub, which made our travelling more difficult and fatiguing.

This kind of scrub, which is different from any I had seen before, is a low bush running along the ground, with very thick and crooked roots and branches, and forming a close matted and harassing obstacle to the traveller.

The sheep and horses got very tired, from having to lift their legs so high to clear it every step they took.

To the westward we found the country rising as we advanced, and the cliffs becoming higher; they now answered fully, where we could obtain a view of any projecting parts, to the description given by Flinders--"the upper part brown and the lower part white;" but as yet we could not find any place where we could descend to examine them.