LOSE A DOG. 
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commenced the low level waste of barren scrubby 
land, which we so constantly saw to the eastward 
of us. 
I had intended to make a short stage to-day to a 
spring, situated in the midst of a swamp, in latitude 
33° 46' 35 " S., but having kept rather too far away 
from the coast, I missed it, and had to push on for 
twenty-three miles to a rich and very pretty valley, 
under a grassy range, lightly wooded with casuarinse. 
The soil was somewhat sandy, but clothed with 
vegetation ; in holes in the rocks we procured abun- 
dance of water from a little valley near our camp, 
and in a swamp about a mile and a half north-east 
was a spring. Our stage was a long one, and the day 
being excessively hot, our horses, sheep, and dogs 
were nearly all knocked up. Of the latter two were 
unfortunately missing w r hen we arrived at our halt- 
ing ground ; one came up afterwards, but the other 
could nowhere be found, though both had been seen 
not two miles away. The missing # dog was the best 
of the two which I had purchased of Mr. White, and 
I felt sorry for a loss which it would be impossible 
for me to replace. Many native fires were seen to-day, 
and especially in the direction of a high hare-looking 
detached range to the north-east, named by me 
from its shape, Mount Wedge; none of these people 
* Upon returning to Adelaide in 1841, I learnt that the dog 
had gone back all the way to Mr. White’s station, and as Mr. 
White wished to keep the animal, he returned the money he had 
received at his sale. 
