Photo by the Reverend J.M.

Curran.] On the 12th and 13th of June the rain came, and the drought-beleaguered invaders of the desert were relieved.

But Poole did not live to profit by the rain.

Every arrangement was made for his comfort that their circumstances permitted, but on the first day's journey he died.

His body was brought back and buried under the elevation which they called the Red Hill, and which is now known as Mount Poole, three and a-half miles from Depot Camp.
Sturt's way was now open.