He travelled for some time in bad country, but, going on, he got into good country; and that which he has described as the Musgrave and Mann and Tomkinson Ranges I hope to see next year stocked with South Australian sheep and cattle.

(Cheers.) The country which Mr.
Gosse found is country abounding with any quantity of grass, with many springs; and there are, perhaps, many more than I saw, for I kept along Mr.Gosse's track; but I will say that I always found water where he said that it would be found.

(Cheers.) There is but one fault that I have to find with him, and that is, that he did not say that water would be found where I sometimes found it; but doubtless this arose from a very laudable caution in an explorer, for had he stated that water would be found where it failed it might have cost men their lives.

One place he marked springs, and if he had been mistaken there, we would have lost our lives; but I am glad to say that we found there a very good spring indeed, (cheers) enough to last all the sheep of South Australia, or at any rate a good spring; and I am glad on this occasion to be able to thank him for being so careful to mark permanent water where permanent water really existed.

Mr.Giles's exploration would have been as useful to me as Mr.
Gosse's, but unfortunately he did not return before I left the settled districts of West Australia, and therefore I did not benefit by his work.
I am sure that my companions and myself feel very much the hearty reception you have given us on this occasion.