and by east. I built here a small cairn and scratched with a mussel shell
which I picked up at a blacks' camp (having no knife) my initials and a
broad arrow. Started again at 1.30 after the rest of the party, who had
gone on ahead. At 2.30 came south and by east half east, partly on the
tracks and partly with the main party, over thinly wooded plains for four
miles. At 2.30 came south one and three-quarter miles and encamped. I
never saw finer-looking herbage than that along our path today. If it
always rained when the grass required moisture this would be one of the
best places, if not altogether the best, in Australia.

February 28. Camp 15, situated on the right bank of the Flinders River at
a point about six miles south and by east from Mount Little and Mount
Brown.

Near this point the water in the river is deep with tea-trees growing
near, a good sign that the water is permanent. Last night we had a sudden
and heavy shower of rain. Fisherman and Jackey were not prepared for it,
consequently they got all their clothes and bedding wet; this however was
rather a subject of merriment than otherwise. We left camp at 8.8. At
8.55, having come east-south-east for two miles up the river, over rich
level ground, thinly wooded with box and (what I take to be) excoecaria,
and green with the following herbage: roley-poley, pigweed, saltbush, and
grass to plains. At 11.15 came five and three-quarter miles in the same
direction across plains intersected from the east by shallow
watercourses, outlets of the river during floods. At 12, having remained
behind the party with Jemmy, I got the following observation on a plain
horizon of about a mile in length, namely, meridian altitude of the sun
78 degrees; latitude 19 degrees 51 minutes 7 seconds. Started again at
7.43 and came east-south-east four miles on the tracks of our party along
an unwooded plain with plenty of old grass on it, now green from the