recent wet weather; and along a low sandy ridge, green with grass and
brushwood. This land evidently retains the moisture better than that of
the country down the river. At 2.40 came south-east and by east one and
three-quarter miles over level, well-grassed, and thinly-wooded land,
with the exception of a sandhill wooded with bauhinia. At 3.45 came south
one and a half miles over poor sandy land, badly grassed and thickly
wooded. At 4.15 came south-west and by south one and a half miles over
level country covered with roley-poley, pigweed, saltbush, and young
grass, and wooded with box and western-wood acacia to water, and
encamped. Distance eighteen and a quarter miles.

March 1. Camp 16, situated on the right bank of the Flinders River.

Left same this morning at 8.40. At 10.30 travelled five miles
east-south-east on an average course along the right bank of the river
over rich level land covered with roley-poley, pigweed, grass, and
saltbush, and wooded with box, terminalia, and other trees. At 11.20 came
south-east and by east over land such as I have just described for two
and a quarter miles. Halted with Jemmy and on a short plain horizon made
the following observation, namely, meridian altitude of the sun 77
degrees 27 minutes; latitude 20 degrees 3 minutes 30 seconds. At 12.23
started on the tracks of our party. At 12.58 came one and three-quarter
miles over sandy level land on which I observed, amongst other grasses,
tufts of kangaroo-grass. At 1.30, when we had come south-east one and a
half miles over an unwooded plain and very rich soil covered with
roley-poley, pigweed, saltbush, and luxuriant young grass, we overtook
our party. At 2.20 came south-east and east over an unwooded well-grassed
plain to a watercourse from the east, with long holes of water. Here a
black was observed in the distance. As this was the first whom we had
seen since leaving the depot, and as I never had observed tracks on