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bouring huts of a superior structure gave us snug 

 quarters for the night ; Wizard Peak bearing S. 50" 

 E. about a mile distant. 



At break of dawn we resumed our exploration. 

 The morning was dull and cloudy, thermometer 59° ; 

 on the previous day its greatest height had been 85°. 

 Two miles from our bivouac, we fell in with a recent 

 native grave — a circular pit three yards in diameter, 

 filled within a foot of the surface with sand, care- 

 fully smoothed over. Small sticks, some with red 

 horizontal marks painted on them, and others 

 scraped, with the shavings tastefully twisted round, 

 ornamented the edge of the grave ; a large semi- 

 circular fence fronted the south-east side ; and 

 the neighbourhood bore evidence, in the shape of 

 several destroyed huts, of its having been deserted 

 by the companions of the dead. After walking at 

 least five miles, we again made the Chapman or 

 Greenough, above a mile south of the point at 

 which we before met it, and pursuing its usual 

 course between S. and S. S. W. The bed was still 

 dry sand, but we found a small hole of brackish 

 water in a hollow. Crossing, we continued our 

 west direction, and were surprised to find ourselves 

 again on the river ; a line of red cliifs thirty feet 

 high, forming the south bend, had changed its 

 course to the northward. We subsequently again 

 crossed two dry parts of it ; from an elevation on 

 the S. W. side of the last. Mount Fairfax bore N. 

 50" E. and Wizard Peak S. 58° E. 



Hitherto I had been in doubt whether this was 



