The late rains had not visited this isolated mass.

It is barren and covered with spinifex from turret to basement, wherever sufficient soil can be found among the stones to admit of its growth.
The night of the 9th of September, like the preceding, was cold and dewy.

The horses wandered quite in the wrong direction, and it was eleven o'clock before we got away from the camp and went north to the sheet of water seen yesterday, where we watered the horses and followed up the creek, as its course here appeared to be from the west.

The country was level, open, and sandy, but covered with the widely pervading triodia (irritans).

Some more Xanthorrhoea were seen, and several small creeks joined this from the ranges to the north.
Small sheets of water were seen in the creek as we passed along, but whether they existed before the late rains is very problematical.