pidly gained upon them.
The moment he got within reach of the hindmost he threw a stick which he
had seized while running, with unerring precision, and striking it full
in the ribs stretched it on the ground. As he passed the animal he gave
it a blow on the head with another stick, and bounding on after the other
was soon out of our sight. All we knew further of the chase, was, that
before we reached the spot where his first prize lay, he was returning to
us with its companion. As soon as he had secured his prey he sat down to
take out their entrails, a point in which the natives are very
particular. He was careful in securing the little fat they had about the
kidneys, with which he rubbed his body all over, and having finished this
operation he filled their insides with grass and secured them with
skewers. This done he put them on the cart, and we proceeded up the pass,
at the head of which we arrived sooner than I expected. We then found
ourselves at the commencement of a large plain. The hills we had ascended
the day before trended to the north, and there was a small detached range
running perpendicular to them on our right. To the south there were
different points, apparently the terminations of parallel ranges, and
westward an unbroken line of hills. The creek seemed to trend to the
S.W., and in that direction I determined to follow it, but Topar
earnestly entreated us not to do so. He was in great consternation; said
here was no water, and promised that if we would follow him he would shew
us water in which we could swim. On this condition I turned as he
desired, and keeping along the western base of the main or front range,
took up a course somewhat obtuse to that by which I had crossed the
plains of Cawndilla. The productions on the ground were of a salsolaceous
kind, although it was so much elevated above the plains, but amongst them
there was not any mesembryanthemum. At about three miles we passed a very
remarkable and perfectly isolated hill, of about 150 feet in height. It
ran longitudinally from south to north for about 350 yards, and was bare
of trees or shrubs, with the exception of one or two casuarinas. The
basis of this hill was a slaty ferruginous rock, and protruding above the
ground along the spine of the hill there was a line of the finest hepatic
iron ore I ever saw; it laid in blocks of various sizes, and of many tons
weight piled one upon the other, without a particle of earth either on
their fac