At five miles we struck on a bend of a river, and we saw great volumes of smoke from burning grass and triodia rising in all directions.

The natives find it easier to catch game when the ground is bare, or covered only with a short vegetation, than when it is clothed with thick coarse grasses or pungent shrubs.

A tributary from the north, or east of north, joined the Finke on this course, but it was destitute of water at the junction.

Soon now the river swept round to the westward, along the foot of the hills we were approaching.

Here a tributary from the west joined, having a slender stream of water running along its bed.