EXPLORING EXPEDITION. 57 



Saturday July \3th. — Camp No. 64. Bar. 28-650in., ther. 

 45°. — Keen easterly winds. Started at 8 - 30. "Moochar" does 

 not appear much better this morning. Made other arrangements 

 for his benefit, and to-day he will only carry the little boy, Weei. 

 Travelled upon the same bearing as yesterday, over spinifex sand- 

 hills, with broad firm flats between them, these were covered with 

 mulga, and in some places were very scrubby with quantities of 

 dead wood laying upon the ground, this made travelling difficult. 

 It has been very cold to-day, too cold to ride. Many of us are 

 almost barefooted, so walking is a luxury denied us. Several fresh 

 tracks of blacks were passed this morning, and their fires were 

 quite close to us. Camped at 4 - 30, having travelled twenty miles. 

 Bar. 28-725in., ther. 50° at 5 p.m. 



Sunday, July llth.— Camp No. 65. Bar. 28-710in. ther. 29°. 

 — A bitterly cold night, had to turn out several times to make up 

 the fire, bedding all frozen hard. Started at 8*30, Mount Connor 

 being in full view. Travelled over grass flats covered with dense 

 mulga scrub, between these were spinifex sandhills ; ar, noon 

 reached a low sandstone ridge, covered with dense mulga, and is 

 marked by a low abrupt cliff that stops the caravan approaching 

 any nearer to Mount Connor. Followed up this low ridge in a 

 northerly direction, and in five miles Billy, who was walking on 

 ahead, cried out " water ! " I think I never saw water in a more 

 unlikely looking place, it was in a native well, at the foot of this 

 cliff of fractured and riven sandstone ; there are several native 

 encampments in its vicinity, otherwise there are no indications 

 whatever. I decided to take advantage of this discovery, so had 

 the camels turned out while I ascended the little ridge to view 

 the surroundings. I find that this little spring is about half a 

 mile from the most easterly end of this low ridge, and about a 

 mile and a half north of Mount Connor. I notice an attractive 

 range about thirty miles distant, its outline and general appearance 

 being very similar to Gill's Range. Its western extremity bears 

 N. 8° E. ; its eastern end N. 22° E. A salt lake formation bears 

 N. 15° E. This may possibly be the eastern extremity of Lake 

 Amadeus ; another salt channel bears 3°. I intended to have 

 travelled easterly from here towards the Goyder Springs, but this 

 range, with a lake apparently close to it, has altered my plans. 

 I shall visit these features, for neither are marked upon any plans 

 that I have. The peaks of the Musgrave Ranges appear so tempt- 

 ingly close, and I should much like to go down there before 

 going to Erldunda, but while there are new features to discover 



1 must deny myself the pleasure. Bar. 28 - 680in., ther. 46" at 5 

 p.m. 



Monday, July 15 tk.— Camp No. 65 ; S. lat. 25° 26' 55". Bar. 

 28 - 650in., ther. 32°. — Cold easterly wind, with frost. I had to get 

 up several times during the night, owing to the extreme cold. At 



2 a.m. the thermometer went down to 29°. The camels wandered 



