The whole river seemed to divide into chains of dry water-holes, scarcely connected by hollows.

Two miles farther we came to a fine large water-hole, surrounded by Polygonums and young water-grass, and, at two miles farther, to another, and in about the same distance to a third.

Recent camps of the natives were on each of them, and a beaten path led from one to the other.

One of these holes was crossed by a weir made of sticks for catching fish.

Bones of large fish, turtle shells, and heaps of muscles, were strewed round the fire places.
The whole day was bright and very hot; the wind in the afternoon from E.S.E.The latitude of our last camp was 21 degrees 31 minutes 16 seconds, being about eighteen miles W.N.W.from the lake.
Mr.Roper and Brown rode about seven miles down the river, and found that it again formed a large regular bed well supplied with water; and that the country was of a more open character.