[Expedition into Central Australia by Charles Sturt]@TWC D-Link bookExpedition into Central Australia CHAPTER IV 54/89
We cast our eyes therefore to that point to break through them, and returned to Morgan with at least the hope of success.
In the view I had just then been contemplating, however, I saw all realized of what I had imagined of the interior, and felt assured that I had a work of extreme difficulty before me in the task of penetrating towards the centre. On our return to the cart, I determined on again taking up my quarters at the little rocky water-hole, and sending Mr.Browne and Flood to the westward to find a practicable descent to the plains, before I again moved from the glen. In the evening, Mr.Browne went with Flood down the creek, but the road was perfectly impracticable even for led horses, so that the only hope of progressing rested on the success that might attend his endeavours on the following day.
He accordingly started with Flood at an early hour, proposing to return by the way of the creek, if he should succeed in finding a descent to the plains.
I and Morgan remained in the glen.
My observations placed this well-remembered spot in lat.
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