The little dog barked still more furiously, but the sounds departed: we heard them no more: and the rest of the night passed in silence--in silence and beautiful rest.
We had not yet even sighted the Finke, upon my north-west course; but I determined to continue, and was rewarded by coming suddenly upon it under the foot of high sandhills.

Its course now was a good deal to the north.

The horses being heavily packed, and the spinifex distressing them so much, we found a convenient spot where the animals could water without bogging, and camped.

Hard by, were some clumps of the fine-looking casuarinas; they grow to a height of twenty to twenty-five feet of barrel without a branch, and then spread out to a fine umbrella top; they flourish out of pure red sand.

The large sheet of water at the camp had wild ducks on it: some of these we shot.