Continuing about North 77 degrees East magnetic for fifteen miles, through dense thickets--no grass except spinifex--we bivouacked, without water or feed, and then tied up our horses.

I found this spot to be in south latitude 28 degrees 41 minutes by meridian altitude of Bootes (Arcturus), and in longitude about 122 degrees 37 minutes East.
2nd.
Started at dawn, and steered about east, searching on our way for water, which our horses and ourselves were beginning to want much.

At six miles we found a small hole in some rocks, apparently empty, but on sounding with a stick I found it to contain a little water.

The mouth of the hole being too small to admit a pannican, and having used my hat with very little success, I at last thought of my gum-bucket, with which we procured about two quarts of something between mud and water, which, after straining through my pocket-handkerchief, we pronounced first-rate.
Continuing for six miles over clear, open sand-plains, with spinifex and large white gums--the only large trees and clear country seen since leaving the settled districts--we climbed up a white gum to have a view of the country eastward.

Some rough sandstone cliffs bore North 127 degrees East magnetic, about six miles distant.