October 15th.

This morning’s meal was to be the last we should make at our friendly little tarn, whose opportune waters, ripe figs, miniature mountains, and imitation fortresses, will long linger in my recollection.  Opposite the rocks in which the water lies, and opposite the camp also, is a series of small fort-like stony eminences, standing apart; these form one side of the glen; the other is formed by the rocks at the base of the main ridge, where the camp and water are situated.  This really was a most delightful little spot, though it certainly had one great nuisance, which is almost inseparable from pine-trees, namely ants.  These horrid pests used to crawl into and over everything and everybody, by night as well as by day.  The horses took their last drink at the little sweet-watered tarn, and we moved away for our new home to the south.

CHAPTER 1.6.  FROM 15TH OCTOBER, 1872 TO 31ST JANUARY, 1873.

Move the camp to new creek. 
Revisit the pass. 
Hornets and diamond birds. 
More ornamented caves. 
Map study. 
Start for the mountain. 
A salt lake. 
A barrier. 
Brine ponds. 
Horses nearly lost. 
Exhausted horses. 
Follow the lake. 
A prospect wild and weird. 
Mount Olga. 
Sleepless animals. 
A day’s rest. 
A National Gallery. 
Signal for natives. 
The lake again. 
High hill westward. 
Mount Unapproachable. 
McNicol’s range. 
Heat increasing. 
Sufferings and dejection of the horses. 
Worrill’s Pass. 
Glen Thirsty. 
Food all gone. 
Review of our situation. 
Horse staked. 
Pleasure of a bath. 
A journey eastward. 
Better regions. 
A fine creek. 
Fine open country. 
King’s Creek. 
Carmichael’s Crag. 
Penny’s Creek. 
Stokes’s Creek. 
A swim. 
Bagot’s Creek. 
Termination of the range. 
Trickett’s Creek. 
George Gill’s range. 
Petermann’s Creek. 
Return. 
Two natives. 
A host of aborigines. 
Break up the depot. 
Improvement in the horses. 
Carmichael’s resolve. 
Levi’s Range. 
Follow the Petermann. 
Enter a glen. 
Up a tree. 
Rapid retreat. 
Escape glen. 
A new creek. 
Fall over a bank. 
Middleton’s Pass. 
Good country. 
Friendly natives. 
Rogers’s Pass. 
Seymour’s Range. 
A fenced-in water-hole. 
Briscoe’s Pass. 
The Finke. 
Resight the pillar. 
Remarks on the Finke. 
Reach the telegraph line. 
Native boys. 
I buy one. 
The Charlotte Waters. 
Colonel Warburton. 
Arrive at the Peake. 
News of Dick. 
Reach Adelaide.