Whenever one moves, these spines enter the clothes in all directions, making it quite a torture to walk about among them.

From here I could see that the Finke turned up towards these hills through a glen, in a north-westerly direction.

Other mountains appeared to the north and north-west; indeed this seemed to be a range of mountains of great length and breadth.

To the eastwards it may stretch to the telegraph line, and to the west as far as the eye could see.

The sun had gone down before I had finished taking bearings.