Yamba always went in front and I followed.
The bush teemed with fruits and roots.

After leaving our own camp in the Cambridge Gulf region we struck a fine elevated land, excellently well watered; and later on we followed the Victoria River in a south-easterly direction through part of the Northern Territories of South Australia.

We at length struck a peculiar country covered with coarse grass ten feet or twelve feet high--not unlike the sugar-cane which I afterwards saw, but much more dense.
It was, of course, impossible for us to pursue our course due south, owing to the forests and ranges which we encountered; we had, as a matter of fact, to follow native and kangaroo tracks wherever they took us--east, west, and even north occasionally, generally to water-holes.

The progress of the natives is simply from one water supply to another.

But as far as possible we pursued our way south.