CHAPTER III. 
SPRING HILL— AN AGED NATIVE DESERTED BY HIS TRIBE- 
RICH AND EXTENSIVE PLAINS SURPRISE A PARTY OF 
NATIVES — ROCKY RIVER — CRYSTAL BROOK — FLINDERS 
RANGE THE DEEP SPRING MYALL PONDS ROCKY WATER 
HOLES— DRY WATERCOURSE — REACH THE DEPOT NEAR 
MOUNT ARDEN— PREPARE FOR LEAVING THE PARTY 
BLACK SWANS PASS TO THE NORTH — ARRIVAL OF THE 
WATERWITCH. 
During the night the frost had been so severe, that 
we were obliged to wait a little this morning for the 
sun to thaw the tent and tarpaulins before they 
would bend to fold up. After starting, we pro- 
ceeded across a high barren open country, for about 
three miles on a W. N. W. course, passing close 
under a peak connected with Campbell’s range, 
which I named Spring Hill, from the circumstance 
of a fine spring of water being found about half 
way up it. 
Not far from the spring I discovered a poor 
emaciated native, entirely alone, without either food 
or fire, and evidently left by his tribe to perish 
there ; he was a very aged man, and from hardship 
and want was reduced to a mere skeleton, how long 
he had been on the spot where we found him I had 
no means of ascertaining, but probably for some 
