From daily experience, we acquired a sort of instinctive feeling as to the course we should adopt, and were seldom wrong in our decisions.
The ridges, near the water-holes on which we were encamped, are composed of an igneous rock containing much iron, with which the water was impregnated to such a degree, that our tea turned quite black and inky.
The natives were very numerous in these parts, and their tracks were everywhere visible.

They had even followed the tracks of Mr.Gilbert's and Brown's horses of the preceding day.
The night was bright; the day cloudy, and the wind easterly.

I went with Charley, in the afternoon of the 17th, to examine the extent of the scrubby country, of which Mr.Gilbert had given us so poor an account.
The channel of the river became narrow and deep, with steep banks, as it enters the scrub, and there the flooded gums entirely disappeared.

The scrub is about eight miles long, and from two to three miles broad, and is tolerably open.

The Bricklow is here a real tree, but of stunted growth, with regularly fissured bark, like that of the Ironbark (Eucalyptus resinifera).