At five the party reached the hills, the acacia scrub continuing to within a mile of them; and as the day had been exceedingly warm, Mr.Poole encamped in a little gully.

He then walked with Mr.
Browne to the top of the nearest hill, and from it observed two lines of gum-trees in the plains below them to the north, which gave them hopes of finding water in the morning, as they were without any.

Saw two detached ranges bearing 320 degrees and 329 degrees respectively, and a distant flat-topped hill, bearing 112 degrees from them, the country appearing to be open to the north.
On the 13th, the party pushed on at an early hour for the gum-trees, but found no water.

Observed numerous flights of pigeons going to the N.W.
Traced the creek down for two miles, when they arrived at a place where the natives had been digging for water; here Mr.Poole left Mr.Browne and went further down the creek, when he succeeded in his search; but finding, on his return, that Mr.Browne and Mack had cleared out the well and got a small supply of water, with which they had relieved the horses and prepared breakfast, he did not return to the water he had discovered, but proceeded to the next line of gum-trees where there was another creek, but without water in it; coming on a small quantity in its bed at two miles, however, they encamped.

A meridian altitude of Aldebaran here gave their latitude 30 degrees 10 minutes 0 seconds S.On the following morning Mr.Poole started on a W.N.W.course for a large hill, from whence he was anxious to take bearings, and which he reached and ascended after a journey of 22 miles.