Circles of fire. 
Wallaby and pigeons. 
Wallaby traps. 
Return to depot. 
Water diminishing. 
Glen Edith. 
Mark trees. 
The tarn of Auber. 
Landmarks to it. 
Seeds sown. 
Everything in miniature. 
Journey south. 
Desert oaks. 
A better region. 
Kangaroos and emus. 
Desert again. 
A creek channel. 
Water by scratching. 
Find more. 
Splendid grass. 
Native signs. 
Farther south. 
Beautiful green. 
Abundance of water. 
Follow the channel. 
Laurie’s Creek. 
Vale of Tempe. 
A gap or pass. 
Without water. 
Well-grassed plain. 
Native well. 
Dry rock holes. 
Natives’ fires. 
New ranges. 
High mountain. 
Return to creek. 
And Glen Edith. 
Description of it.

On starting from Mount Udor, on the 1st October, our road lay at first over rocks and stones, then for two or three miles through thick scrubs.  The country afterwards became a trifle less scrubby, and consisted of sandhills, timbered with casuarina, and covered, as usual, with triodia.  In ten miles we passed a low bluff hill, and camped near it, without any water.  On the road we saw several quandong trees, and got some of the ripe fruit.  The day was warm and sultry; but the night set in cool, if not cold.  Mr. Carmichael went to the top of the low bluff, and informed me of the existence of low ridges, bounding the horizon in every direction except to the south-south-east, and that the intervening country appeared to be composed of sandhills, with casuarinas, or mulga scrubs.

In Baron von Mueller’s extraordinary work on Select Extra-tropical Plants, with indications of their native countries, and some of their uses, these remarks occur:—­“Acacia aneura, Ferd. v.  Mueller.  Arid desert—­interior of extra tropic Australia.  A tree never more than twenty-five feet high.  The principal ‘mulga’ tree.  Mr. S. Dixon praises it particularly as valuable for fodder of pasture animals; hence it might locally serve for ensilage.  Mr. W. Johnson found in the foliage a considerable quantity of starch and gum, rendering it nutritious.  Cattle and sheep browse on the twigs of this, and some allied species, even in the presence of plentiful grass; and are much sustained by such acacias in seasons of protracted drought.  Dromedaries in Australia crave for the mulga as food.  Wood excessively hard, dark-brown; used, preferentially, by the natives for boomerangs, sticks with which to lift edible roots, and shafts of phragmites, spears, wommerahs, nulla-nullas, and jagged spear ends.  Mr. J.H.  Maiden determined the percentage of mimosa tannic acid in the perfectly dry bark as 8.62.”  The mulga bears a small woody fruit called the mulga apple.  It somewhat resembles the taste of apples, and is sweet.  If crab apples, as is said, were the originals of all the present kinds, I imagine an excellent fruit might be obtained from the mulga by cultivation.  As this tree is necessarily so often mentioned in my travels, the remarks of so eminent a botanist upon it cannot be otherwise than welcome.