“In dreams you come as things of light and lightness! 
    We hear your voice in still small accents tell,
    Of realms of bliss and never-fading brightness,
    Where those who loved on earth together dwell.”

Then, while lying asleep, engrossed by these mysterious influences and impressions, I thought I heard celestial sounds upon mine ear; vibrating music’s rapturous strain, as though an heavenly choir were near, dispensing melody and pain.  As though some angels swept the strings, of harps ethereal o’er me hung, and fann’d me, as with seraph’s wings, while thus the voices sweetly sung:  “Be bold of heart, be strong of will, for unto thee by God is given, to roam the desert paths of earth, and thence explore the fields of heaven.  Be bold of heart, be strong of will, and naught on earth shall lay thee low.”  When suddenly I awoke, and found that the party with all the camels had arrived, my fire was relit, and the whole place lately so silent was now in a bustle.  I got up, and looked about me in astonishment, as I could not at first remember where I was.  But I soon discovered that the musical sounds I had heard were the tintinabulations of my camel-bells, tinkling in the evening air, as they came closer and closer over the sandhills to the place where I lay dreaming, and my senses returned at length to their ordinary groove.

We were safely landed at the Youldeh depot once more; and upon the whole I may say we had had an agreeable journey from Port Augusta.  Jimmy and Tommy’s cow calved soon after arrival.  I was glad to find she had delayed; now the calf will be allowed to live, as she will be here for some little time.  On the following morning I christened the calf Youldeh, after her birthplace; she was not much bigger than a cat.  On the 6th, 7th, and 8th, we all remained in depot, doing various kinds of work, re-digging and re-slabbing the well, making two large canvas troughs for the camels to drink out of, making some covers and alterations to some water-beds I had for carrying water, and many other things.  I had some camels to deliver at Fowler’s Bay, and some private business, necessary to be done before a magistrate, which compelled me personally to return thither; otherwise I should have gone away to the north to endeavour to discover another depot in that direction.  But now I committed this piece of work to my two officers, Messrs. Tietkens and Young, while Alec Ross and I went south to the Bay.  Both parties started from Youldeh on the 9th.  I took old Jimmy with me to return him, with thanks, to his family.  Tietkens and Young took Tommy with them, as that young gentleman had no desire whatever to return or to leave me.  Between ourselves, when I first got him in February, I had caused him to commit some very serious breaches of aboriginal law, for he was then on probation and not allowed to come near women or the blacks’ camp.  He was also compelled to wear a great chignon, which made him look more like a girl than a boy.