hideous beings who had invaded their territory.  The water-hole was nearly three miles long; no other water was to be found in any of the other channels in the neighbourhood.  We have seen no other native game here than ducks and pigeons.  We noticed large areas of ground on the river flats, which had not only been dug, but re-dug, by the natives, and it seems probable that a great portion of their food consists of roots and vegetables.  I remained here two days, and then struck over to the creek before mentioned as coming from the north-east.  At eight miles it ran through a rough stony pass between the hills.  A few specimens of the native orange-tree, capparis, were seen.  We encamped in a very rough glen without water.  The country is now a mass of jumbled stones.  Still pushing for the peak, we moved slowly over hills, down valleys, and through many rocky passes; generally speaking, the caravan could proceed only along the beds of the trumpery watercourses.  By the middle of the 1st of May, the second anniversary of the day I crawled into Fort McKellar, after the loss of Gibson, we crawled up to the foot of Mount Labouchere; it seemed very high, and was evidently very rough and steep.  Alec Ross and Saleh ascended the mount in the afternoon, and all the satisfaction they got, was their trouble, for it was so much higher than any of its surroundings that everything beyond it seemed flattened, and nothing in particular could be seen.  It is composed of a pink and whitish-coloured granite, with quantities of calcareous stone near its base, and it appears to have been formed by the action of submarine volcanic force.  No particular hills and no watercourses could be seen in any northerly direction.  The Gascoyne River could be traced by its valley trend for twenty-five or thirty miles eastwards, and it is most probable that it does not exist at all at fifty miles from where we crossed it.  The elevation of this mountain was found to be 3400 feet above sea level, and 1800 feet above the surrounding country.  The latitude of this feature is 24 degrees 44’, and its longitude 118 degrees 2’, it lying nearly north of Mount Churchman, and distant 330 miles from it.  There were no signs of water anywhere, nor could any places to hold it be seen.  It was very difficult to get a camel caravan over such a country.  The night we encamped here was the coolest of the season; the thermometer on the morning of the 2nd indicated 48 degrees.  On the stony hills we occasionally saw stunted specimens of the scented commercial sandal-wood and native orange-trees.  Leaving the foot of this mountain with pleasure, we went away as north-easterly as we could, towards a line of hills with a gap or pass in that direction.  We found a small watercourse trending easterly, and in it I discovered a pool of clear rain-water, all among stones.  We encamped, although it was a terribly rough place.  Arriving at, and departing from, Mount Labouchere has made some of the camels not only very tender-footed, but in