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ARRIVE AT A STATION. 
our camp, by a Aquilse 34° 12' 52'' S. by j3 Leonis 
34° 12' 35" S. and assumed the mean of the two, or 
34° 12' 43" as the correct one. 
October 1.- — Making an early start we passed at 
three miles the head of the watercourse we had been 
encamped upon, and then ascended some scrubby 
ranges, for about five miles further, when we entered 
into a narrow tract of good grassy country, which at 
five miles brought us to Mr. Driver’s station; a 
Mr. Dutton was living at this place as Mr. Driver’s 
manager, and by him we were very hospitably 
received, and furnished with such supplies as we 
required.* 
It was a cattle station, and abounded with milk 
and butter, luxuries which we all fully enjoyed after 
our long ramble in the wilds. Having halted my 
party for the day, Mr. Scott and myself dined at 
Mr. Dutton’s, and learnt the most recent news from 
Adelaide and Port Lincoln. We had much to hear 
and much to inquire about, for even in the few 
months of our absence, it was to be presumed, that 
many changes would have taken place in the fluc- 
tuating affairs of a new colony. Nor were our 
conjectures wrong. 
That great reaction which was soon to convulse all 
* In 1842, Mr. Dutton attempted to take some cattle overland, 
from this station to the head of Spencer’s Gulf ; both he and his 
whole party perished in the desert, (as supposed) from the want 
of water. In October of that year, I was sent by Government 
to search for their remains, but as it was the dry season, I could 
not follow up their tracks through the arid country they had 
advanced into. The cattle returned. 
