region.  Still, it was impossible to ascertain from the hill whether any streams did flow through the country beyond, although appearances were by no means in favour of such a conclusion.  Neither could I distinguish from that summit, as I hoped to do, the ultimate course of the Darling, as the line of large trees upon its banks continued, as far as I could distinguish, in the same direction.  Another low but extensive range, exactly resembling that to the eastward of our camp, was visible on the horizon beyond it, and seemed to be the limit of its bed or basin on the eastern or left bank, and the range certainly did differ most essentially in its outline from the hills on the right bank, being the last and lowest termination of the higher ranges in the east.

MOUNT MURCHISON.

As we descended I named the first hill beyond the Darling ever ascended by any European after my friend Mr. Murchison, a gentleman who has so greatly advanced the science of geology.  We recrossed the river at the ford just as the sun was going down, and I had the satisfaction to find that no natives had visited the camp during my absence.

CHAPTER 2.6.

Natives of the Spitting tribe. 
Singular behaviour on the discharge of a pistol. 
Conjectures. 
Second interview with the Spitting tribe. 
Strange ceremonial. 
Amusing attempts to steal, or diamond cut diamond. 
Dry channel of a stream. 
Tombs on the sandhills. 
White balls on tombs. 
Australian shamrock. 
Old canoe. 
Dry state of the country. 
Danger and difficulty of watching the cattle on the riverbanks. 
Uniform character of the Darling. 
The Grenadier bird. 
The Doctor and the natives. 
A range discovered by refraction. 
Dance of natives. 
A lake. 
Tombs of a tribe. 
Plan of natives’ hut. 
Method of making cordage. 
The tall native’s first visit. 
Channel of a small stream. 
The carts beset on the journey by very covetous natives. 
Mischievous signals. 
Cattle worn out. 
The tall man again. 
Approach of the Fishing tribe. 
Covetous old man. 
Conduct on witnessing the effect of a shot. 
The party obliged to halt from the weak state of the cattle. 
The natives very troublesome. 
Singular ceremonies. 
Ichthyophagi. 
Their manner of fishing. 
The burning brand. 
A tribe from the south-east. 
The old man appears again with a tribe from the south-west. 
Small streams from the west. 
The Darling turns southward. 
Resolve to return. 
Description of the country on the banks of the river. 
The men at the river obliged to fire upon the natives. 
Steady conduct of the party. 
Origin of the dispute. 
Narrow escape of Muirhead. 
Treacherous conduct of the aborigines. 
Melancholy reflections.

NATIVES OF THE SPITTING TRIBE.

June 27.