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309°; low hill, forty chains 334° 20’. From Mr. Gosse’s No. 7 
depot we followed King’s Creek northward. At one and three- 
quarter miles, in dense mulga scrub, we found a blackfellow’s 
skull. This was secured for the anthropologist. At two and 
three-quarter miles the black boy, Arabi Bey, pointed out a small 
spring in the bed of the creek. The acacia scrub on either side of 
the ereek near the spring is almost impenetrable. Gill’s Range 
terminates a mile to the westward, apparently in two high bluffs. 
The northern of these, the most conspicuous and elevated, was 
named Carmichael’s Crag by Mr. E. Giles. We now travelled east- 
ward through closely grown mulga scrub. Passing Penny’s Creek 
in about two miles we arrived at the camp in four miles. The 
members of the scientific staff have been employed all the day 
through in their special work, and are well satisfied with the results 
this place has yielded. Several natives surprised on the range 
vanished before we had a chance of conversing with them. In 
their desperate haste to get away they abandoned all their weapons, 
which were subsequently added to the ethnological collection. 
Tuesday, June 12th.—Bar. 27:94in., ther. 32°. To-day final 
preparations were made for dispatching under Mr. Cowle’s guidance 
a detachment of the party to Ayers Rock. With the, assistance 
of the black boys, excursions into the ranges to the north and into 
the sandhills to the south resulted in the value and importance of 
the several scientific collections being materially increased. The 
rocks at Penny’s Creek, two and a half miles to the westward, 
were examined. A new land snail and the cyead, locally called a 
palm, were obtained in this locality. ‘Two natives from Tempe 
Downs arrived at the camp, bringing a rare lizard sent by Mr. 
Thornton. I observed the magnetic dip and variation, computed 
results of astronomical and other observations, completed the topo- 
graphical map, and, by measurements, ascertained the height of the 
cliffs above the permanent pool to be 146ft. 
Wednesday, June 18th.—Bar. 27:86in., ther. 36°. A long jour- 
ney was before me to-day, and as I had many matters to attend to 
this morning we were astir earlier than usual. Mr. Cowle, with 
Professor Spencer and Messrs. Watt and Belt, who desired to 
participate in the trip, will leave the main party at this place and 
visit Ayers Rock and, if possible, Mount Olga, for the purpose of 
obtaining photographs of either or both of them. Dr. Stirling, 
who originally wishec to go with this party, eventually preferred 
to accompany the main expedition. Having given Mr. Cowle final 
instructions and arranged to meet him at Glen Helen a fortnight 
hence—that is, on the 26th of this month—I led the main party 
westward, with the intention of visiting Laurie’s Creek in order to 
