CHAPTER II. 
FIRST NIGHT’S ENCAMPMENT WITH PARTY — REFLECTIONS— 
ARRIVAL AT SHEEP STATION — RE-ARRANGEMENT OF LOADS 
— METHOD OF CARRYING FIRE-ARMS — COMPLETE THE 
NUMBER OF THE PARTY — THEIR NAMES — MOVE ONWARDS 
VALLEY OF THE LIGHT— EXTENSIVE PLAINS — HEAD OF 
THE GILBERT SCARCITY OF FIREWOOD — GRASSY WELL- 
WATERED DISTRICTS — THE HILL AND HUTT RIVERS— 
INDICATIONS OF CHANGE GOING ON IN APPEARANCE AND 
CHARACTER OF THE COUNTRY, TRACEABLE IN THE REMAINS 
OF TIMBER IN THE PLAINS AND IN THE OPENINGS AMONG 
SCRUBS THE BROUGHTON — REEDY WATERCOURSE — 
Campbell’s range — course of the broughton. 
June 18 . — The party having left Adelaide late 
in the forenoon, and it being the first day of work- 
ing the horses, I did not wish to make a long stage ; 
having followed the usual road, therefore, as far as 
the little Parra, the drays were halted upon that 
watercourse (after a journey of about twelve miles), 
and we then proceeded to bivouac for the first time. 
For the first time too since I had engaged to com- 
mand the expedition, I had leisure to reflect upon 
the prospects before me. 
During the hurry and bustle of preparation, 
