Journey south-west. 
Glens and springs. 
Rough watering-place. 
A marble bath. 
Glassy rocks. 
Swarms of ants. 
Solitary tree. 
An oven. 
Terrible night. 
And day. 
Wretched appearance of the horses. 
Mountains of sand. 
Hopeless view. 
Speculations. 
In great pain. 
Horses in agony. 
Difficulty in watering them. 
Another night of misery. 
Dante’s Inferno. 
The waters of oblivion. 
Return to the pass. 
Dinner of carrion. 
A smoke-house. 
Tour to the east. 
Singular pinnacle. 
Eastern ranges. 
A gum creek. 
Basins of water. 
Natives all around. 
Teocallis. 
Horrid rites. 
A chip off the old block. 
A wayside inn. 
Gordon’s Springs.

Taking Jimmy and three horses, we travelled, after clearing the pass, on the south slopes of the range westward, crossing several small creek-channels, which might or might not have waters in them.  At twelve miles we came to a green-looking channel and found water, running so far down as a rocky hole, near where we crossed.  We outspanned here for an hour, as I found riding very severe toil after my late kicking.  I named this secluded but pretty little spot, Glen Helen.  It was very rough travelling ground—­worse than on the northern side of the range.  Three miles farther, we crossed another running water, and called it Edith Hull’s Springs.  At ten miles farther, after crossing several channels, we turned up one, and got some water in a very rough and stony gorge off the main channel, which was dry.  There was very poor feed, but we were compelled to remain, as there was no other creek in sight for some miles, and the horses, although shod, could only travel slowly over the terribly rough ground.  When we turned them out, they preferred to stand still, rather than roam about among the rocks and boulders for food.  The day was cool; the southern horizon, the only one we could see, was bounded entirely by red sandhills and casuarina timber.  The horses ate nothing all night, and stood almost where they were hobbled.

In this region, and in the heat of summer, the moment horses, no matter how fat and fresh they may be, are taken away from their companions to face the fearful country that they know is before them, they begin to fret and fall away visibly.  They will scarcely eat, and get all the weaker in consequence, and then they require twice as much water as they otherwise would if their insides were partly filled with grass.  When I released our three from the hobbles this morning, they immediately pretended to feed; but this old ruse has been experienced before, and time was now up, to move on again.  They were very thirsty, and nearly emptied the rock basin, where we had a kind of bath before starting.  Along the foot-hills over which we were obliged to travel, the country was much rougher than yesterday; so much so, that I kept away as much as possible.  At twenty miles