13G HOHN KXPEDITION — NAIiRATIVE. 



It will Ije iiumy yours before the recollection of our stay at Alice Springs fades 

 from our memory, for it came as a pleasant ending to an Expedition which had 

 carried u.s into parts of the continent remote from the usual Ijcaten tracks. 



Looking back upon our Expedition a few scenes stand out prominently — the 

 giljbcr plains at sunset ; the bare upland stony plain with the thin telegraph line 

 streaking away to the horizon, on which through the heated air waves the outline 

 of the Charlotte Waters Station can be seen ; the view of the great Finke Valley 

 where at Crown Point the river breaks through the Desert Sandstone hills ; 

 Chambers Pillar rising solitary amongst the sandhills; the picturesque water-holes 

 of the George (HU Range ; the camp, weird and silent, by Lake Amadeus ; Ayers 

 Rock glowing bright I'ed in the sunset ; the group of graceful palm trees Ijy the 

 side of the rock-pools in Palm Creek and the wonderful gorges amongst the 

 McDonnell Range. 



Six days' incessant travelling — camping out in the open wherever we happened 

 to come to some time after dark and starting away at sunrise — Ijrought us to 

 Charlotte Waters. After- spending a few hours here with Mr. Byrne we started 

 oil' again, and in three days more reached the head of the railway line at 

 Oodnadatta and three days later we were in Adelaide. 



