Coote languishes quietly in Alice Springs and Taylor and Rolfe rest up Middleton Ponds, Buck makes an interesting host.

The Company sacks Coote as a danger to himself and others.

The Endeavour team off to another early start and quickly into clear country after camping in dense mulga last night, conditions improving along with the mulga. nine miles in two hours including cool off stops, good going considering. By midday the land about is luxuriant with a great variety of herbage. And a rare pleasure for the driver, half an hour at thirty five miles per hour until a hopeless tangle of mulga is reached, there is nothing for it but to axe their way through, hard sweating work in almost tropical heat and the timber is infested with uncountable numbers of biting itching creepy crawlies.

Thunderstorms looming. half a mile past Lungley's Gully camp pitched just before the rain comes down in torrents, which prompts Bailey to strip off and shower in the freezing rain. The camels refuse to go further in the driving rain and the vehicle bogs to the axles trying to get to them. A cosy night under canvas with the rain continuing.