Jemmy and Jackey went out early for the horses. Shortly after noon they
returned having only found a portion of them. They brought back two
snakes and ate them for dinner. Jackey was bitten by one of the reptiles
but so slightly that he did not think anything of it. Snakes are rare in
this part of the country. In my last expedition to the south-west I only
remember having seen one. In the evening Fisherman brought in the
remainder of the horses. The weather was showery, accompanied by
northerly wind for the greater part of the day.

February 27. Number 14 Camp, situated on the right bank of the Flinders
River at a point about seven miles south-east and by south from Fort
Bowen.

The weather during the night was showery, accompanied by northerly wind.
Left camp at 8.40. At 10.5, having crossed a plain in sight of the trees
on the banks of the river in an easterly course for three and
three-quarter miles, sighted hills, named by me Mount Brown and Mount
Little. At 11.40 came south-east and by east towards Mount Little for
four and a half miles, and reached a watercourse full of water from the
east. At 12.15, having come one and a half miles further in the same
direction, we halted till 12.30 for Jackey, who had gone to waterholes
surrounded by springs and clumps of tea-trees for the purpose of shooting
ducks. Jemmy and I left the party to ascend Mount Little, which is nearer
to the river than Mount Brown. We reached Mount Little in about a mile
and rode to its rocky summit. Its elevation is about fifty feet. The
rocks looked like granite, but on a closer inspection I found they were
of a stratified formation. From the mount nothing was observable except
Fort Bowen, Mount Brown, a little rise, and extensive thinly wooded
plains. Fort Bowen bore 58 degrees west of north, the small rise south