CHAPTER IV 
MAKE ARRANGEMENTS FOR GETTING UP STORES FROM THE 
WATERWITCH LEAVE THE PARTY — SALT WATERCOURSE — 
MOUNT EYRE ASPECT OF THE COUNTRY — LAKE TORRENS 
RETURN TOWARDS THE HILLS — NATIVE FEMALE SALINE 
CHARACTER OF THE COUNTRY — MOUNT DECEPTION REACH 
THE EASTERN HILLS — LARGE WATERCOURSES WATER 
HOLE IN A ROCK — GRASSY BUT HILLY COUNTRY RUN- 
NING STREAM — ASCEND A RANGE — RETURN HOMEWARDS — 
DECAY OF TREES IN THE WATERCOURSES — SHOOT A KAN- 
GAROO ARRIVE AT THE DEPOT BURY STORES — MAKE 
PREPARATIONS FOR LEAVING — SEND DESPATCHES TO 
THE VESSEL. 
July 6. — Being anxious to pursue my explora- 
tions, and unwilling to lose another day solely for 
the purpose of receiving my letters, I sent down 
my overseer to arrange about getting our stores up 
from the vessel, which was about fourteen miles 
away, and to request the master to await my return 
from the north, and in the interval employ himself 
in surveying and sounding some salt water inlets, 
we had seen on the eastern shores of the gulf in our 
route up under Flinders range. 
Having made all necessary arrangements and 
