As they extend so far, and are the principal features in sight, I shall follow them, in hopes of meeting some creek, or river, that may carry me on to the west.

It is a remarkable fact that such high hills as I have been following should send out no creek whose course extends farther than ten or twelve miles.

I could trace the creek I am now on by its timber for only a few miles, its course appearing south of west.

The country in its immediate neighbourhood is open, and timbered with fine casuarina trees; the grass is dry and long, and the triodia approaches to within a quarter of a mile of it.

The line of hills I previously mentioned as running along to the south of us, we had now run out.