About this lake there was also much good feed.
CROSS THE DARLING RANGE.
In the course of the afternoon we travelled eight miles further in an easterly direction, and were then obliged to halt without water, which we did not again succeed in finding after we left the lake.
TO THE HOTHAM RIVER.
On the morning of the 14th we had only travelled six miles in a due easterly direction when I found we had crossed the Darling Range; our course now lay along a level fertile plain, well fitted for pastoral purposes.

We travelled across this a distance of about five miles when we came upon the river Bannister, which here was nothing but a series of large pools with good feed for cattle about them.

We halted for breakfast and afterwards continued in an easterly direction, when, after travelling for another six miles, we reached the Hotham.

The land we passed over between the Bannister and Hotham was equal in goodness to any I have seen in Western Australia.
The circumstance of both water and feed abounding at the Hotham induced me to halt here for the night, and on the morning of the 15th we commenced our toilsome march from the Hotham to the Williams; the distance is about twenty-eight miles in a direct line; the country consisting of rocky hills, difficult to cross; and throughout the whole of this distance we could find no water: we were thus for eleven hours exposed to the sun in one of the hottest days I have ever felt, and we were not a little glad when just at sunset we found ourselves on the banks of the Williams.
CONDITION OF DISTANT SETTLERS.
We here found the establishment of an out-settler, of which it would be difficult to convey an adequate idea: the house consisted of a few upright poles, one end of each resting on the ground, whilst the other met a transverse pole, to which they were tied; cross-poles then ran along these, and to complete the building a sort of rude thatch was tied on it.

It was open at both ends and exposed to the land wind, which, as the situation was high, I found a very unpleasant visitor during the night.