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with high warm east win exchanging to north from midday. Bar. 

 27-525in., ther. 86° at 3 p.m. 



Monday, April \5th. — Camp No. 10, Glen Helen Station. Bar. 

 27 - 600in., ther. 66°. — Cloudy with light north wind, heavy showers 

 of rain fell during the night and kept up till sunrise. I hoped to 

 have made a start to day but the uncertain weather and every- 

 thing being thoroughly wet, I decided to postpone it till to-mor- 

 row. 1 should have much liked to stay a fortnight prospecting 

 in this neighborhood, but I have received so little encourage- 

 ment that, perhaps, the interests of the Association are best served 

 by moving on ; at any rate, it is with these views that I decide to 

 do so. Bar. 27-5<)0in., ther. 80° at 3 p.m. 



Tuesday, April 16M. — Camp No. 12. Bar. 27*580in., ther. 56° 

 at dawn. — Very heavy dew during the night, but a most lovely 

 morning. Our arrangements all completed, we packed up and 

 started. Mr. MacDonald kindly gave me all the fat of a bullock 

 that he killed last night. Many and various have been the atten- 

 tions that we have received from this kind-hearted gentleman during 

 our stay near his homestead, among others was a liberal supply of 

 fresh milk sent down to our camp every morning, besides which, 

 upon hearing that my watch was broken, he very generously lent 

 me his for the journey. It will be understood that a timekeeper 

 is a most important item in the outfit of such a party ; observa- 

 tion for position would be almost impossible without one. Started 

 away upon a bearing of S. 82° W., following the tracks of some 

 cattle that Mr. MacDonald was sending out to the Arumbara 

 Creek ; kept upon this bearing for twelve miles and then turned 

 IN . 60° W. for six miles, when we arrived at the cattle yards and 

 camped with Mr. MacDonald and the men. Travelled eighteen 

 miles, principally through mulga scrub. Bar. 27 - 625 in., ther. 78° 

 at 3 p.m. 



Wednesday, April 17th.— Camp No. 13. Bar. 27'745in , ther. 

 46°. — Mr. MacDonald decided to travel with us for the first day, 

 and he had with him a native boy who knew of a pass that would 

 take us through the wall-like range that lay to the southward, and 

 which looked as formidable as that which we followed for so many 

 days to the northward. Started away at 10 a.m. on a bearing of 

 N.*75° W. for four miles, this took us down the Arumbara Creek, 

 which at this point took a turn to the northward towards the 

 range that is called Haast's Bluff, the outline of this range is most 

 striking, being a series of irregular peaks ; the native name for it 

 is Nyurla, it is of the most singular form. I cannot see how it can 

 be identical with the Haast's Bluff of Giles, for there is certainly 

 nothing of that kind to be seen. I then turned upon a bearing of 

 S. 75° W. for three miles, this took us over low stony hills covered 

 with spinifex, and to take advantage of a favorable spot to get 

 through a line of hills that lay upon our course I turned south for 

 ten miles : we were again face to face with a wall-like range. I 



